Alessandro Bausi#
| Membership Number: | 3321 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/it/users/alessandrobausiuniroma1it |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7575-7513 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023, 11 Professor for Ethiopian Studies at Sapienza Università di Roma, Faculty of Humanities, Department Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo
- 2009, 09 Professor for Ethiopian studies at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts, Asien-Afrika-Institut
- 2009, 09 Director of the Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts
- 2006/2007 Adjunct Professor of Ethiopian Philology at Addis Ababa University, Department of Linguistics, Philology MA program
- 2005, 11-12 Visiting Professor of the Hiob-Ludolf-Stiftung at the Asien-Afrika-Institut of the University of Hamburg
- 2002,11-2009,08 Associate Professor of Ethiopic language and literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Faculty of Arts
- 2001 - 2002 Appointed Professor for Ethiopian history and institutions
- 1999 - 2002 Appointed Professor for Ethiopic language and literature
- 1995, 02 Assistant Professor at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Department for Studies on African and Arab Countries
Fields of Scholarship
- Aksumite history and culture
- Text-critical philology
- Ethiopic (Geez) philology and literature
- Apocrypha
- Semitic studies
- Hagiography
- Christian Oriental studies
- Late antique and medieval history
- Manuscript studies
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Awarded with the “Giorgio Maria Sangiorgi” prize of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for History and Ethnology of Africa
- 2013 Awarded with the European Research Council “Ideas” Advanced Grant for the Project “TraCES – From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages” (2014-2019)
- 2014 member of the “Accademia Ambrosiana”, founding member of the “Class of African Studies”, member of the Section for Ethiopian Studies (June 2014–, member of the Steering Committee, 2014–)
- 2015 Awarded with the Union of German Academies Long Term Grant for the Project “Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung” at the Academy of Sciences of Hamburg (2016-2040)
- 2018 member (“Associate Fellow”) of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group (December 2018–)
- 2019 member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg (“Ordentliches Mitglied”, June 2019–September 2023; “Korrespondierendes Mitglied”, October 2023–)
- 2023 member of the “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei” (“Socio straniero”, July 2023–, Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche, Categoria I: Filologia e linguistica)
- 2023 Permanent fellow of the “Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures” (September 2023–).
