Stefan Strelcyn (28 June 1918 - 19 May 1981) was a Polish scholar of
Ethiopian Studies and a Semitist.
Life
Stefan Strelcyn was born at
Warsaw
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on 1918. In Warsaw he attended the Gimnazjum Ascola and the Technical Engineering School. In 1938 he left Poland and went to
Belgium
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where he devoted himself to oriental archaeology and philology in the
Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 1945 he studied
classical Ethiopic and
Amharic
Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all oth ...
at the
Sorbonne, the
École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and the
École pratique des hautes études. He was a student of
Marcel Cohen. In 1950 he was expelled from France to Poland, where he became an Associate Professor of Semitic Studies. In 1954 he became a full professor. In 1967 he was awarded the
Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...
Prize for Ethiopian studies.
In 1981 he died in
Manchester
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.
[See Ullendorff 1981.]
Works
* 1950: ''Sur une priere 'Falacha' publiée par
C. Conti Rossini : dans les ’Appunti di storia e letteratura Falascia’''. Roma: Piox.
* 1951: ''Un magicien grec en Éthiopie''. Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
* 1954: ''Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens (Collection Griaule)''. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale.
* 1955: ''Prières magiques éthiopiennes pour délier les charmes (maftəḥe šərāy)''. Warsaw: P.W.N.
* 1956: ''La literature religieuse Falacha (état de la question)''. Bologna : N. Zanichelli.
* 1973: ''Médecine et plantes d'Éthiopie''. Napoli : Istituto Universitario orientale.
* 1981: "Les mystères des Psaumes, traité éthiopien sur l'emploi des Psaumes (amharique ancien)", in: ''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' 44/1, pp. 54–84.
References
*
Tubiana, Joseph (1982). "Stefan Strelcyn F.B.A. (1918-1981)", in: ''Journal of Semitic Studies'' 27/1, pp. 1–15.
*
Ullendorff, Edward (1981). "Stefan Strelcyn (1918-1981)", in: The British Academy, ''Proceedings'', Vol. LXVII, London
E. Ullendorff, ''Studia Aethiopica et Semitica'' (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1987), pp. 289–300
Footnotes
1918 births
1981 deaths
Semiticists
Ethiopianists
Polish orientalists
Fellows of the British Academy
Polish Africanists
Polish emigrants to France
Polish expatriates in Belgium
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