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| Haile Selassie the First - April 3, 1966 |
Ethiopia, as is well known, has a long tradition of recorded history running
back to the inscriptions of Aksum. The country has also been fortunate in
its scholarship centered on the age-old schools of our church (universities
of the age) which has been the guardian of Our culture throughout the
ages.
Ethiopia has been no less fortunate in attracting the interest of the
international world of scholarship, as well as that of foreign well-wishers
in far off lands.
Almost half a millenimum ago, in 1513, the German Joh Potken, printed
the first Ge'ez Psalter at the Vatican, and a few years later we find a
Florentine trader, Andrea Corsali, contemplating the printing of Ge'ez
books for the Emperor Lebna Dengal.
Some two hundred years later, in the middle of the seventeenth century,
the Ethiopian monk Gregorius held his first meeting with the German
scholar Job Ludolf. The friendship between these two learned men from
the two ends of Christendom, Germany and Ethiopia, was most fruitful.
Ludolf, who has justly been called the "Father of Ethiopian Studies" in
Europe, proceeded to produce a number of significant works in the field
of history and linguistics, among them his Historia Aethiopica, in Latin,
which first appeared in 1681 and his Lexicon Aethiopica - Latinum of
1681 and his Grammatica Linguae Amharicae, the first Amharic grammer
of 1698.
It is not necessary here to enumerate the many schools of quine' and
zema; the schools of the Old and the New Testaments; the schools of the
Old and the New Testaments; the schools of the Church Fathers and the
monks; the schools of history, art, and literature, but We would not pass
them without mentioning the names of Yared and Afeworq, so well known
to you all.
Of the foreign scholars of Ethiopia, We should like to mention the English
Bruce; the German Dillmann; the French Halevy; the Italian Guidi; and the
Russians Turaiev, and Kratchovsky.
The high traditions of learning set by these and other scholars, long
deceased, have been continued by the Ethiopicists of Our own time, many
of whom are now gathered in Our capital.
With a view to encouraging such research, We established the annual Haile
Sellassie I Prize for Ethiopian Studies which was first awarded in 1964 the
distinguished French savant Marcel Cohen and in 1965 to the noted
American scholar Wolf Leslau.
We are happy that the Third International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
should be meeting in Our capital where the Institute of Ethiopian Studies
has now been operating for three years as an integral part of Our
University, We hope to see the Institute expand and make a substantial
contribution to the growth of scholarship in Our beloved land.
back to the inscriptions of Aksum. The country has also been fortunate in
its scholarship centered on the age-old schools of our church (universities
of the age) which has been the guardian of Our culture throughout the
ages.
Ethiopia has been no less fortunate in attracting the interest of the
international world of scholarship, as well as that of foreign well-wishers
in far off lands.
Almost half a millenimum ago, in 1513, the German Joh Potken, printed
the first Ge'ez Psalter at the Vatican, and a few years later we find a
Florentine trader, Andrea Corsali, contemplating the printing of Ge'ez
books for the Emperor Lebna Dengal.
Some two hundred years later, in the middle of the seventeenth century,
the Ethiopian monk Gregorius held his first meeting with the German
scholar Job Ludolf. The friendship between these two learned men from
the two ends of Christendom, Germany and Ethiopia, was most fruitful.
Ludolf, who has justly been called the "Father of Ethiopian Studies" in
Europe, proceeded to produce a number of significant works in the field
of history and linguistics, among them his Historia Aethiopica, in Latin,
which first appeared in 1681 and his Lexicon Aethiopica - Latinum of
1681 and his Grammatica Linguae Amharicae, the first Amharic grammer
of 1698.
It is not necessary here to enumerate the many schools of quine' and
zema; the schools of the Old and the New Testaments; the schools of the
Old and the New Testaments; the schools of the Church Fathers and the
monks; the schools of history, art, and literature, but We would not pass
them without mentioning the names of Yared and Afeworq, so well known
to you all.
Of the foreign scholars of Ethiopia, We should like to mention the English
Bruce; the German Dillmann; the French Halevy; the Italian Guidi; and the
Russians Turaiev, and Kratchovsky.
The high traditions of learning set by these and other scholars, long
deceased, have been continued by the Ethiopicists of Our own time, many
of whom are now gathered in Our capital.
With a view to encouraging such research, We established the annual Haile
Sellassie I Prize for Ethiopian Studies which was first awarded in 1964 the
distinguished French savant Marcel Cohen and in 1965 to the noted
American scholar Wolf Leslau.
We are happy that the Third International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
should be meeting in Our capital where the Institute of Ethiopian Studies
has now been operating for three years as an integral part of Our
University, We hope to see the Institute expand and make a substantial
contribution to the growth of scholarship in Our beloved land.
| Chapter XV |
| 3rd International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Apr. 03, 1966 |
| Culture |