Stefan Strelcyn was a Polish scholar of Ethiopian Studies

Ethiopian Studies

Ethiopian Studies refers to a multi-disciplinary academic cluster dedicated to research on Ethiopia within the cultural and historical context of the Horn of Africa. The classical concept of Ethiopian Studies, developed by European scholars, is based on disciplines like philology and linguistics,...

 and a Semitist.

Life

Stefan Strelcyn was born at Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 on 1918. At Warsaw, he attended the Gimnazjum Ascola and the Technical Engineering School. In 1938 he left Poland and went to Belgium

Belgium

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 where he devoted himself to oriental archaeology and philology in the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Université Libre de Bruxelles

The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...

. In 1945 he studied classical Ethiopic and Amharic

Amharic language

Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Thus, it has official status and is used nationwide. Amharic is also the official or working...

 at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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, the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and the École pratique des hautes études

École pratique des hautes études

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. He was a student of Marcel Cohen

Marcel Cohen

Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen was a French linguist. He was an important scholar of Semitic languages and especially of Ethiopian languages. He studied the French language and contributed much to general linguistics.- Life :...

. 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 Prize for Ethiopian studies.

He died at Manchester

Manchester

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on 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 Ethiopie. 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'Ethiopie. 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.

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