Getatchew Haile is American philologist, Regents Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies, and Curator, Ethiopian Study Center at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.

He graduated from the Coptic Theological College

Catechetical School of Alexandria

The Catechetical School of Alexandria was and is a place for the training of Christian theologians and priests in Alexandria. The teachers and students of the school were influential in many of the early theological controversies of the Christian church.The earliest recorded instructor at the...

, Cairo, Egypt with a B.D. in 1957, from the American University in Cairo

American University in Cairo

The American University in Cairo is an independent, non-profit, apolitical, secular institution of higher learning located in Cairo, Egypt...

, with a B.A. in 1957, and from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, with a Ph.D. in Semitic Philology, in 1962.

Works

• "Forum: Troubles in Ethiopia", The Washington Times, October 29, 2005
• The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Esṭifanos of Gwendagwende, Volume 2 Peeters Publishers, 2006, ISBN 9789042917415
• A catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library, Collegeville, Volume 8, Authors William F. Macomber, Getatchew Haile, Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library, St. John's Abbey and University, 1993, ISBN 9780940250550

External links

• "Close Up and Personal", senamirmir.org