HLCEES Team
Professors
Active professors
Scientific director Beta maṣāḥǝft project
Sapienza Università di Roma
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 Roma
Key aspects of activity
- Philology and linguistics
- Manuscript studies
- Critical text editing
Professor
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 127
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-9422
Key aspects of activity
- Ethiopian literature
- Syriac literature
- Semitic studies
Junior professors
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 137, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-7731
Email: nosnitsin"AT"yahoo.com
Key aspects of activity
- Ge'ez literature
- Codicology
- Manuscript cataloguing
Retired professors / with emeritus status
Director CMCL
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 132, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 42838-8942
Fax: +49 40 42838-3330
Key aspects of activity
- Coptic studies
Research associates
Photo: uhh
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 130, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 42838-2741
Fax: +49 40 42838-3330
Email: fonv579"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Ge'ez historiography
- Manuscript studies
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 136, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 42838-8381
Key aspects of activity
- Project Intermediality
Photo: S. Dege-Müller
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 138
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-8380
Key aspects of activity
- Philology
- Manuscript studies
- Ethiopian Jewry
- Art history
Photo: HLCEES
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Email: ted.erho"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Ge'ez literature
- Palaeography
- Manuscript cataloguing
- BeInf Project
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 136, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 42838-8381
Key aspects of activity
- Manuscript cataloguing
- Text editing
Research fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 140
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-8377
Email: mag_krzyz"AT"yahoo.co.uk
Office hours
Mo 10:00 - 11 :00 and date by agreement
Key aspects of activity
- Amharic linguistics
Stiftungsprofessor
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Edmund Siemers Allee 1 Ost
20146 Hamburg
Room: 237
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-4440
Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 143
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-8351
Key aspects of activity
- Ethiopic Philology; Liturgy; Bible Commentary
Photo: V. Pisani
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 131
Telephone: +49 40 42838-8491
Key aspects of activity
- Philology
- Hagiography
- Manuscript studies
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 135, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-7777
Key aspects of activity
- Project coordinator
- Webmaster
- Catalogue conversion
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 136, AT1
Telephone: +49 40 42838-8381
Key aspects of activity
- Manuscript studies
- Philology
Visiting scholars
External Fellow
University College London
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT
Email: j.gnisci"AT"ucl.ac.uk
Key aspects of activity
- Art History
Other
Editorial assistant
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-7730
Key aspects of activity
- Aethiopica
- Aethiopica Supplements
- Aethiopistische Forschungen
research fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 138
Telephone: +49 40 42838-8380
PhD student
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 132
Email: leah.mascia91"AT"gmail.com
PhD student
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 144
Telephone: +49 40 42838-2081
Key aspects of activity
- Manuscript studies
- Scribes and their professional biographies
Photo: BeInf
research fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 141
Key aspects of activity
- Art History
- Medieval Art
- Illuminated Manuscripts
Research fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Room: 140
Telephone: +49 40 2395-2-9557
PhD student
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Telephone: +49 40 42838-2081
Email: guesh2013"AT"gmail.com
Key aspects of activity
- Manuscript studies
Associates at Asien-Afrika-Institut
- Hewan Semon Marye, Jun.-Prof. Dr.
- Getie Gelaye, Dr
Emeriti and former staff
- Siegbert Uhlig, Prof. Dr Dr , former Director
- Abrham Adugna, MA (Ethio-SPaRe)
- Stéphane Ancel, Dr (Ethio-SPaRe)
- Antonella Brita, Dr (CSMC)
- Verena Böll, Dr (EAe)
- Wolfgang Dickhut, MA (TraCES)
- Daria Elagina, Dr
- Andreas Ellwardt, Dr (TraCES)
- Iosif Fridman, MA (Ethio-SPaRe)
- Gidena Mesfin Kebede, PhD (CSMC Graduate School)
- Hiruie Ermias, Dr (TraCES)
- Susanne Hummel, Dr (Ethio-SPaRe, TraCES, Aethiopica)
- Michael Kleiner, Dr (EAe)
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Dr (Beta masaheft)
- Alexander Meckelburg, Dr (EAe, SLAFNET)
- Angela Müller, MA
- Francesca Panini, MA (Aethiopica, AeF)
- Dipl.-Pol. Thomas Rave (EAe, Aethiopica, AeF)
- Dorothea Reule (Beta masaheft)
- Veronika Roth, MA (Ethio-SPaRe)
- Irene Roticiani, MA (Ethio-SPaRe)
- Hanna Rubinkowska, Dr (EAe)
- Sisay Sahile Beyene, Dr (Beta masaheft)
- Alin Suciu, Dr (CMCL)
- Nafisa Valieva, Dr Des (CSMC Graduate School)
- Cristina Vertan, Dr (TraCES)
- Massimo Villa, Dr (Beta masaheft)
External staff and research associates
- David Appleyard, Dr
France - Maria Bulakh, Dr
Moscow, Russia - Dirk Bustorf, Dr
Hamburg, Germany - Iosif Fridman, MA
Moscow, Russia - Alessandro Gori, Prof. Dr
Copenhagen, Denmark - Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner, Dr
Gondar, Ethiopia - Joseph McIntyre, Dr
Hamburg, Germany - Matthias Schulz, MA
Hamburg, Germany - Wolbert Smidt, Prof. Dr
Mekelle, Ethiopia
Student assistants
- Janet Fredekind (2023)
- Lina Volkhardt (2021-2023)
- Jana Andresen (2020-2022)
- Leonard Bahr (2017-2020)
- Sibylla Jenner (2017-2018)
- Alisa Murzenko (2017)
- Lasse Dallmann (2016)
- Till Trojer (2014-2016)
- Daria Elagina (2011-2013)
- Ramon Hirsinger (2010-2011)
- Sarah Mengescha (2010-2011)
- Helen Schmidt (2009)
- Martin Haars (2007, 2016)
- Alexander Meckelburg (2005-2009)
- Angela Müller (2007)
- Isabel Hofmann (2003-2010)
- Sophia Dege (2003-2009)
- Luam Tesfalidet (2001-2007)
- Dagmawit Kebbede (2000-2005)
- Astrid Otto (1999-2003)
- Bedemariam A. Aklilu (1998-2003)
Others
for scholarship holders see https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/ethiostudies/service/guests.html
for PhD students see https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/ethiostudies/phd.html