June 11, 2021 COLLEGEVILLE, MINN., JUNE 10, 2021 – Prof. Getatchew Haile, FBA, passed away on June 10, 2021 in New York City after a long illness. Prof. Getatchew was born in Ethiopia in 1931. After university studies in Cairo and Germany, he served in Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and taught in the Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature at Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa. Already a renowned Ethiopian philologist and historian, he joined the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 1976. The legacy of Getatchew Haile for Ethiopian … Continue reading Prof. Getatchew Haile, FBA, 1931–2021