PhD in Ethiopian Studies at HLCES

HLCES hosts and supports dissertation research.

The following theses have been defended at Universität Hamburg, at HLCES or in association with HLCES, in the past years:

Ongoing:

Sisay Sahile Beyene
Critical edition of the nineteenth-century treatise Tārik Zamədra Gwandar (‘The History of the Land of Gondar’)

Sophia Dege
Innertextuelle Exegese und Anspielung in Äthiopischer Schöpfungsliteratur – Analyse und Vergleich anhand ausgewählter Motive

Jonas Karlsson
Towards a Typology of Dəggʷā Manuscripts: A Study of the Zamana Ṣəge

Hewan Semon Marye
Urban humour of Ethiopians in its written and performed forms

2019:

Susanne Hummel
Das hagiographische Werk zu Śarṣa Ṗeṭros. Werkgenese und Teiledition

Daria Elagina
The Textual Tradition of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Towards the Critical Edition of the Ethiopic Version

Nafisa Valieva
The ‘Gadla Lālibalā collection of textual units’: tradition and documentation

Hiruie Ermias
The Issues of ʾAggabāb (Classic Gǝʿǝz Grammar) According to the Tradition of Qǝne Schools

2017:

Alexander Meckelburg
From "Subject to Citizen?" History, Identity and Minority Citizenship: The Case of the Mao and Komo of Western Ethiopia (abstract available)

2016:

Gidena Mesfin Kebede
Ethiopian Abənnät Manuscripts: Organizational Structure, Language Use, and Orality (abstract available)

Solomon Gebreyes Beyene
The Chronicle of King Gälawdewos (1540-1559): A Critical Edition with Annotated Translation (abstract available)

2010:

Mersha Alehegne Mengistie
The Ethiopian Commentary on the Book of Genesis. Critical Edition and Translation (publ. 2011)

2009:

Dirk Bustorf
Lebendige Überlieferung. Geschichte und Erinnerung der muslimischen Silt’e Äthiopiens (publ. 2011)

2007:

Mussie Tesfagiorgis Gebremeskel
A Fading Nature: Aspects of Environmental History of Eritrea (1800-1991)

2006:

Tsega Endalew Etefa
Inter-Ethnic Relations on a Frontier: Mätakkäl (Ethiopia), 1898-1991

Maija Priess
Die äthiopische Chrysostomos-Anaphora

2005:

Birgit Mattausch
Die Kunst der Ambiguität. Indirekte Kommunikation im historischen Äthiopien und ihre Reflektion in den amharischen Aläqa-Gäbrä-Hanna-Geschichten (publ. 2006)

2004:

Johannes Launhardt
Evangelicals inAddis Ababa 1919-1990 with special Reference to the Ethiopean Evangelical Church Mehane Yesus and the Addis Ababa Synod (publ. 2004)

The following theses by HLCES members have been defended at other Universities, with the logistical and scientific support of the HLCES, in the past years:

Magdalena Krzyzanowska
 Epistemic modality in Amharic (Poznan University, 2020)

Andreu Martínez d'Alòs Moner
Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557–1632 (European University Institute, 2009 [publ. 2015])

Denis Nosnitsin
"Житие Тэклэ Хайманота" как памятник эфиопской средневековой литературы (The Vita of Täklä Haymanot as a Work of Medieval Ethiopian Literature; St Petersburg State University, 2003, in Russian)

Vitagrazia Pisani
Il culto di San Qirqos nell’Etiopia storica: analisi storico-filologica, con edizione critica della “Passio” (Gädlä Qirqos) (Università di Napoli "L'Orientale, 2013, in Italian)