Instructors

The instructors include:

• Alessandro Bausi, Prof. Dr, Universität Hamburg (classes: Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: history of the discipline; Gəʿəz literature: periodization, genres and typology; Philology / text criticism: history and methodology)

• Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Dr, Universität Hamburg (classes: Working with Gəʿəz historiographic texts)

• Antonella Brita, Dr, Universität Hamburg (classes: Gəʿəz manuscripts in context; Scribal practices in Gəʿəz manuscript; Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies)

• Marco Di Bella, MA, Palermo (classes: Manuscript preservation: damages, decay and prevention; Manuscript conservation and restoration)

• Sophia Dege-Müller, MA, Universität Bochum (class: Beta Esrael manuscripts)

• Endris Mohammed, Prof. Dr, Addis Ababa University (class: Islamic literature of Ethiopia and Eritrea)

• Sara Fani, Dr, University of Florence (class: Codicology of Islamic manuscripts)

• Jacopo Gnisci, Dr, University of Oxford (classes: History and Historiography of Ethiopian Art; Themes and Techniques of Manuscript Illumination)

• Alessandro Gori, Prof. Dr, University of Copenhagen (classes: Methodology and basic tools in Ethiopian and Eritrean studies; Islamic manuscript studies)

• Susanne Hummel, MA, Universität Hamburg (classes: Working with Gəʿəz hagiographies; Manuscript digitization; Cataloguing: defining criteria and basic tools)

• Pietro Liuzzo, Dr, Universität Hamburg (classes: Electronic cataloguing of Gəʿəz manuscripts; Using TEI XML for manuscript cataloguing)

• Mersha Alehegne Mengistie, Assoc. Prof. Dr, Addis Ababa University (class: State of the art in the Ethiopian manuscript heritage preservation)

• Denis Nosnitsin, Dr, Universität Hamburg (classes: Codicology of Gəʿəz manuscripts; Palaeography of Gəʿəz manuscripts; Working with Gəʿəz historiographic and documentary texts; Amharic manuscripts: form and content)

• Michele Petrone, Dr, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (classes: Islamic manuscripts in context; Field research and manuscript studies)

• Dorothea Reule, MA, Universität Hamburg (classes: Electronic cataloguing of manuscripts; Cataloguing Gəʿəz manuscripts: History of cataloguing; Cataloguing theory and stratigraphy)

• Shiferaw Bekele, Prof., Addis Ababa University (class: Ethiopian and Eritrean studies: basic historical facts)