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Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi

Alessandro Bausi (Firenze, 1963). Classical studies and Indoeuropean and Semitic comparative linguistics at the University of Florence (BA and MA, cum laude, in Geez language and literature, 1988). Ph.D. in Ethiopic philology (Istituto Universitario Orientale [IUO], Naples, 1988-1992). Teacher's diploma exam in Greek, Latin and Humanities for secondary school (1992). Supply teacher in Italian State high schools (1992-1995). Main research interests: Geez (Ancient Ethiopic) language and literature and Ethiopian history of the ancient and medieval period, from the philological (manuscript tradition of the texts and their origin, also including the relevant background in the literatures of the Christian Orient) and linguistic point of view. Comparative linguistics of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia. Manuscript cultures. Development of digital systems and resources for Ethiopian studies. Several field researches in Ethiopia and Eritrea since 1990. Main publications: critical editions and translations of canonico-liturgical and hagiographical texts (among which, new texts of the most ancient Ethiopic literature, dating back to the Aksumite age, and relevant to the history of Ethiopia, Egypt and late antique christianity), as well as apocryphal and documentary ones. Contributor and field-specialist (Ethiopic literature, including manuscriptological topics) to the "Encyclopaedia Aethiopica" (co-editor since 2009). Other initiatives for international series ("Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Aethiopici", "Corpus Christianorum. Series Apocryphorum", "Cahiers d'Orientalisme").

Academic affiliation

  • Assistant Professor at the IUO, Naples, Department for Studies on African and Arab Countries (February 1995).
  • Professor with an annual appointment of Ethiopic language and literature (1999-2002) and Ethiopian history and institutions (2001/02) at the Faculty of Arts of the IUO.
  • Associate Professor (November 2002 to August 2009, confirmed since November 2005) of Ethiopic language and literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (UNO), with annual appointments of Ethiopian history and institutions (2002-05), Semitic civilizations of the Horn of Africa (2005/06), Ethiopian history and institutions (2006-08), Amharic Language and Literature (2008/09).
  • Academic director of the BA program on "Languages and civilizations of Asia and Africa" at the Faculty of Arts of the UNO (2004/05).
  • Visiting Professor of the Hiob-Ludolf-Stiftung at the Asien-Afrika-Institut of the University of Hamburg (Wintersemester 2005/06, November-December 2005).
  • Adjunct Professor of Ethiopian Philology at Addis Ababa University, Department of Linguistics, Philology MA program (since 2006/07).
  • Academic President of the BA and MA programs on Asia and Africa ("Languages and Civilizations of Asia and Africa", BA and MA programs, and "Linguistics of Asia and Africa", MA program) at the Faculty of Arts of the UNO (2007/08).
  • Professor for Ethiopian studies at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik (since September 2009).
  • Director of the Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts (since September 2009).

Memberships

  • Association pour l'Étude de la Littérature Apocryphe Chrétienne (AELAC).
  • Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO, Roma).
  • Gruppo Italiano di Ricerca su Origene e la Tradizione Alessandrina (GIROTA).
  • Philological Society of Ethiopia (PSE, Addis Ababa, since 2006).
  • Istituto per l'Oriente "Carlo Alfonso Nallino"(IPOCAN, Roma, since 2007).
  • International Association for Coptic Studies (normal member, since 2007).
  • Member of the scientific and editorial board of the "Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli" (Napoli, July 2001 - November 2004).
  • Member of the editorial board of "Aethiopica" (Hamburg, since 2005).
  • Member of the scientific board of "Rassegna di Studi Etiopici" (Roma - Napoli).
  • Member of the scientific board of "Christjanskij Vostok" (Sankt Peterburg, since 2007).
  • Member of the advisory board of "Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni" (Roma, since 2009).
  • Member of the scientific committee of the "Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland" (voted by the Akademie der Wissenshaften zu Göttingen, since 2009).

Current Research Projects

Publications

Monographs
  • Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian, Series: The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300-1500: 4; Ashgate Variorum, December 2011, (Pp. 450).
  • Il Qalēmentos etiopico. La rivelazione di Pietro a Clemente. I libri 3-7. Traduzione e introduzione di A.B., “Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica” 2 (Napoli: IUO, Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi, 1992) (Pp. 250).
  • Il Sēnodos etiopico. Canoni pseudoapostolici. Canoni dopo l’Ascensione, Canoni di Simone Cananeo, Canoni apostolici, Lettera di Pietro, 2 vols., “Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium” 552-553, Scriptores Aethiopici 101-102 (Lovanii: In aedibus Peeters, 1995) (Pp. XLIV-307; XXIV-126).
  • La versione etiopica degli Acta Phileae nel Gadla samā‘tāt (Supplemento n. 92 agli Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli, Napoli: IUO, 2002) (Pp. IX-64).
  • La «Vita» e i «Miracoli» di Libānos, 2 vols. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 595-596, Scriptores Aethiopici 105-106, Lovanii: In aedibus Peeters, 2003) (Pp. XXX-226; XXXVIII-138).
  • Tradizioni orientali del «Martirio di Areta». La Prima recensione araba e la Versione etiopica. Edizione critica e traduzione. A cura di A.B. e Alessandro Gori. Presentazione di Paolo Marrassini (Quaderni di Semitistica 27, Firenze: Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università degli Studi, 2006) (Pp. XXVIII-306), pp. 1-17 (Introduzione) e 89-306 (La versione etiopica).
Editorship
  • Afroasiatica Neapolitana. Contributi presentati all’8° Incontro di Linguistica Afroasiatica (Camito-Semitica), Napoli 25-26 Gennaio 1996 / Papers from the 8th Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Linguistics, Naples, January 25-26, 1996 (Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica 6, Napoli: IUO, Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi, 1997 [1998]) (in collaboration with Mauro Tosco).
  • Materiale antropologico sul “Rim” in Etiopia ed Eritrea – Anthropological and Historical Documents on “Rim” in Ethiopia and Eritrea (Il Politico e La Memoria, Torino: Editrice L’Harmattan Italia, 2001) (in collaboration with Gianni Dore and Irma Taddia).
Articles (since 2004 and excluding the reviews)
      • Il testo, il supporto e la funzione. Alcune osservazioni sul caso dell’Etiopia, in Verena Böll - Denis Nosnitsin - Thomas Rave - Wolbert Smidt - Evgenia Sokolinskaia (eds.), Studia Aethiopica in Honour of Siegbert Uhlig on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004), pp. 7-22.
      • Some short remarks on the Canon tables in Ethiopic manuscripts, in “Studi Magrebini” (Napoli), 26 (1998-2002 [2004]) = Carmela Baffioni (a c.), Scritti in onore di Clelia Sarnelli Cerqua (Centro di Studi Magrebini, Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2004), pp. 45-67; revised version of Id., in Birhanu Teferra - Richard Pankhurst (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art. Addis Ababa, 5-8 November 2002 ([Addis Ababa]: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2003), pp. 120-139.
      • La versione etiopica della Didascalia dei 318 niceni sulla retta fede e la vita monastica, in Enzo Lucchesi - Ugo Zanetti (curr.), Ægyptus Christiana. Mélanges d’hagiographie égyptienne et orientale dédiés à la mémoire du P. Paul Devos bollandiste (Cahiers d’Orientalisme 25, Genève: Patrick Cramer, 2004), pp. 225-248.
      • Note aggiuntive sull’Epistola 70 di Cipriano: versione etiopica e versione siriaca, in Michele Bernardini - Natalia L. Tornesello (a c.), Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. d’Erme. Saggi di colleghi e amici in occasione del suo compleanno, 2 voll. (Series Minor LXVIII, Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, 2005), vol. I, pp. 99-109.
      • Combats des Apôtres (Recueil Éthiopien). Introduction. Note sur le texte; Prédication de Barthélemy dans la ville de l’Oasis et Martyre de Barthélemy, in Pierre Geoltrain - Jean-Daniel Kaestli (éds.), Écrits apocryphes chrétien. II (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 516, Paris: Gallimard, 2005), pp. 865-872 and 873-899.
      • Etiopico ’ellē: a proposito di un’ipotesi recente, in “Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique” (Saint Petersburg), 1 (2005) = Denis Nosnitsin (ed. in collaboration with Sergei Frantsouzoff, Leonid Kogan, Basil Lourié), Varia Aethiopica. In Memory of Sevir B. Chernetsov (1943-2005) (Société des études byzantines et slaves, Saint-Pétersbourg: Byzantinorossica, 2005), pp. 3-11.
      • Numismatica aksumita, linguistica e filologia, in “Istituto Italiano di Numismatica. Annali” (Roma), 50 (2003 [2005]), pp. 157-175.
      • Däbrä Libanos (in Šǝmäzana), pp. 28a-29b; Däbrä Tä’amina, pp. 48a-49a; Didǝsqǝlya, pp. 154a-155b; Ǝnda Abba Gärima, pp. 284a-286a; Ǝnda Mäkwännǝn, pp. 288a-289a; Ephesus, Councils of, pp. 329a-331a; Evagrius, pp. 457a-459a; Fumagalli, Giuseppe, pp. 586b-587a; Gäbrä Krǝstos, pp. 615a-616b; Gädlä ḥawaryat, pp. 1049b-1051a; Gädlä säma‘ǝtat, pp. 644b-646b; Giovio, Paolo, pp. 806b-808b; Gwǝnagwǝna, pp. 943b-944a; Ham, pp. 980b-981b, in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Volume 2. D - Ha (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005).
      • Ancient features of Ancient Ethiopic, in “Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies” (Hamburg), 8 (2005), pp. 149-169.
      • La Collezione aksumita canonico-liturgica, in “Adamantius” (Brescia), 12 (2006) = Alberto Camplani (a c.), Il Patriarcato di Alessandria nella tarda antichità e nel Medioevo (Bologna: Morcelliana, 2006), pp. 43-70.
      • The Manuscript Tradition of the Ethiopic Qalēmenṭos. A Short Note, in “Rocznik Orientalistyczny” (Warsaw), 59/1 (2006) = Witold Witakowski - Laura Łykowska (eds.), Wälättä Yohanna. Ethiopian Studies in Honour of Joanna Mantel-Niećko on the Occasion of the 50th Year of Her Work at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw University (Warszawa: Elipsa, 2006), pp. 47-57.
      • Un indice del Liber Aksumae, in “Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies” (Hamburg), 9 (2006), pp. 102-146.
      • Il denarius in Etiopia, in Federico de Romanis - Sara Sorda (a c.), Dal denarius al dinar. L’Oriente e la moneta romana. Atti dell’Incontro di studio. Roma 16-18 settembre 2004 (Studi e materiali 12, Roma: Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, 2006), pp. 83-97 e 313.
      • The Aksumite background of the Ethiopic “Corpus canonum”, in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) - Maria Bulakh - Denis Nosnitsin - Thomas Rave (Assistant Editors), Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Hamburg July 20-25, 2003 (Aethiopistische Forschungen 65, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006), pp. 532-541.
      • Current Trends in Ethiopian Studies: Philology, in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) - Maria Bulakh - Denis Nosnitsin - Thomas Rave (Assistant Editors), Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Hamburg July 20-25, 2003 (Aethiopistische Forschungen 65, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006), pp. 542-551.
      • La versione etiopica delle Risposte canoniche di Timoteo I attribuite a Pietro di Alessandria (CPG II, nr. 2520), in “Scrinium. Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique” (Saint-Pétersbourg), 2 (2006) = Basil Lourié - Alexej V. Muraviev (eds.), Universum Hagiographicum. Mémorial R.P. Michel van Esbroeck, s.j. (1934-2003) (Saint-Pétersburg: Société des études byzantines et slaves, 2006), pp. 41-57.
      • Un indice dell’Evangelo d’oro di Dabra Libānos (Šemazānā, Akkala Guzāy, Eritrea), in “Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies” (Hamburg), 10 (2007), pp. 81-91.
      • “Illustre e caro collega”: a letter of Carlo Conti Rossini to Enno Littmann on April 25th, 1943, in “Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies” (Hamburg), 10 (2007), pp. 199-206.
      • La catalogazione come base della ricerca. Il caso dell’Etiopia, in Benedetta Cenni - Chiara Maria Francesca Lalli - Leonardo Magionami (a c.), Zenit e Nadir II. I manoscritti del¬l’a¬rea del Mediterraneo: la catalogazione come base della ricerca. Atti del Seminario internazionale. Montepulciano, 6-8 luglio 2007 (Medieval Writing. Settimane poliziane di studi superiori sulla cultura scritta in età medievale e moderna 2, Collana di studi promossa dal CISLAB [Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sui Beni Librari e Archivistici] e dal Dottorato in Scienze del Libro dell’Università di Siena, Montepulciano [SI]: Thesan & Turan S.r.l., 2007), pp. 87-108.
      • Ancient features of Ancient Ethiopic, in Marco Moriggi (a c.), XII Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camito-Semitica (Afroasiatica) [Ragusa - Ibla, 6-9 giugno 2005] (Medioevo Romanzo e Orientale. Colloqui 9, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2006 [2007]), pp. 263-268.
      • Hippolytus, pp. 35a-36b; Historical Books, biblical, pp. 39b-40b; Isayǝyyas (in collaboration with Robert Beylot), pp. 196b-197a; John the Baptist (in Ethiopian literature), pp. 288b-291b; Libanos, pp. 558b-560b; Maccabees, Ethiopic Book of, pp. 621a-622a; Manuscripts (in collaboration with Siegbert Uhlig), pp. 738a-744a; Melchizedek, pp. 914b-916b; Mǝśṭir: Mäṣḥafä mǝśṭir, pp. 941b-944a; Monastic literature, pp. 993a-999b; Naǧrān, pp. 1114b-1116a; Name(s), Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite names, pp. 1119b-1122b, in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Volume 3. He-N (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007).
      • Nota bibliografica, in Yaqob Beyene, In memoriam Lanfranco Ricci (1916-2007), in “Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies” (Hamburg), 11 (2008), pp. 221-222.
      • La tradizione scrittoria etiopica, in “Segno e Testo” (Cassino), 6 (2008), pp. 507-557.
      • Philology as Textual Criticism: “Normalization” of Ethiopian Studies, in “Ethiopian Philology. Bulletin of Philological Society of Ethiopia” (Addis Ababa University - Department of Linguistics), 1/1 (November 2008), pp. 13-46.
      • The ›so-called Traditio apostolica‹: preliminary observations on the new Ethiopic evidence, in Heike Grieser - Andreas Merkt (Hrsgg.), Volksglaube im antiken Christentum. Prof. Dr. Theofried Baumeister OFM zur Emeritierung (Darmstadt: WBG [Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft], 2009), pp. 291-321.
      • Una civiltà del manoscritto, in Giuseppe Barbieri - Gianfranco Fiaccadori (a c.), Nigra sum sed formosa. Sacro e bellezza dell’Etiopia cristiana. Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni 13 marzo - 10 maggio 2009 (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - Friuladria Crédit Agricole - Regione del Veneto, Vicenza: Terra Ferma, 2009), pp. 183-186.

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