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Edward Ullendorff




He was previously Reader in Semitic Languages at the University Of St. Andrews , Professor of Semitic Languages at the University Of Manchester , and Professor of Ethiopic at the University Of Oxford .

He was educated at Gymnasium Graues Kloster, the Hebrew University and the University of Oxford.


WORKS

  • Exploration and Study of Abyssinia. A brief survey

  • The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. A Comparative Phonology (1955)

  • An Amharic Chrestomathy (1965)

  • The challenge of Amharic (1965) An inaugural lecture delivered on 28 October 1964

  • The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People (1966)

  • Ethiopia and the Bible (1968) Schweich Lectures of The British Academy 1967

  • Is Biblical Hebrew a Language? (1977)

  • Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie of Ethiopia (1978)

  • The Amharic Letters Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia to Queen Victoria and Her Special Envoy (1979) with David L. Appleyard, Girma-Selassie Asfaw

  • The Hebrew Letters of Prester John (1982) with C. F. Beckingham.

  • A Tigrinya Chrestomathy (1985)

  • The Two Zions : Reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia (1989)

  • From Emperor Haile Selassie to H. J. Polotsky Collected Papers IV: An Ethiopian and Semitic Miscellany

  • From the Bible to Enrico Cerulli A Miscellany of Ethiopian and Semitic Papers



REFERENCES

  • Who's Who 2007

  • Simon Hopkins, "Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Edward Ullendorff", in: ''Journal of Semitic Studies'' XXXIV/2 (1989), pp. 253-289.

  • Dina Ullendorff, "Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Edward Ullendorff (1988-99)", in: ''Journal of Semitic Studies'' XLV/1 (2000), pp. 131-136.