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BeInf – Beyond Influence: The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity.
Beyond InfluenceThe Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christianity

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Team

Profiles for the individual team members of the ERC-funded BeInf project are given below. Future team members include:

butts

Foto: Mina Esfandiari

Prof. Dr. Aaron Michael Butts

Principal Investigator
Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Raum: 127
Tel.: +49 40 42838-9422
Sprechzeiten

nach Vereinbarung.

Schwerpunkte
  • Ethiopic language and literature
  • Syriac language and literature
  • Aramaic language and literature
  • Near Eastern Christianity
  • Philology and Textual Criticism
  • Semitic linguistics
Dege

Foto: S. Dege-Müller

Sophia Dege-Müller

Scientific coordinator
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Raum: 138
Tel.: +49 40 42838-8380
Schwerpunkte
  • Philology
  • Manuscript studies
  • Ethiopian Jewry
  • Art history
Ted Erho

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Ted M. Erho

Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Schwerpunkte
  • Ge'ez literature
  • Palaeography
  • Manuscript cataloguing
  • BeInf Project
Meseret

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Dr Meseret Oldjira

research fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Raum: 141
Tel.: +49 40 42838-7729
Schwerpunkte
  • Art History
  • Medieval Art
  • Illuminated Manuscripts

Check this page to meet the broader team at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies.

To learn more about our cooperation partners please visit the partners page.

Visiting Fellows

  • Nesina Grütter, PhD, SNF Starting Grant Professor, Principal Investigator of MiTAnIm project, at Institut Dominique Barthélemy, Département d’études bibliques, Université de Fribourg
  • Shiferaw Bekele, Prof. Emeritus, History Department, Addis Ababa University
  • Ibrahim al-Othaim, PhD, Assistant Professor at King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
  • Loren Stuckenbruck, PhD,  Professor für Neues Testament mit Schwerpunkt antikes Judentum at LMU (München)
  • Suzanne Akbari, PhD, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA)
  • Felege-Selam Yirga, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Simcha Gross, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Atsbha Gebreegziabher Asmelash, PhD, Head of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of Tigray, in Mekelle

Contact

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Aaron Michael Butts
Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 40 42838-9422