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Ethiopic Grammar
by August Dillmann and Carl Bezold
Translated by James A. Crichton
Edited by K. C. Hanson
Series: Ancient Language Resources
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
August Dillmann (1823-94) was born at Illingen, Wuerttemberg, and educated at the University of Tubingen, where he was a student of Heinrich Ewald. He produced catalogs of Ethiopic manuscripts, an edition of the Bible in Ethiopic, the Ethiopic edition of 1 Enoch (1851), 'Lexicon Linguae Aethiopiae' (1865), and 'Chrestomathia Aethiopica' (1866). He taught at the universities of Tubingen, Kiel, Giessen, and Berlin. In 1875-76 Dillmann was the Rektor of the University of Berlin, and in 1881 he was the President of the International Congress of Orientalists.
Carl Bezold (1859-1922) was one of the leading Assyriologists of his generation. He was born in Danauworth, Bavaria, and was educated at the universities of Munich, Leipzig, and Strasbourg. He was the founding editor of 'Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie' (1886-1915). In 1894 he was appointed Professor of Semitic Philology and Director of Oriental Seminars at the University of Heidelberg, where he taught until his death.
"The renewed interest taken in Semitic studies in general within these recent years, and in particular the continued issue . . . of numerous and important Ethiopic texts, encourage the hope that an English edition of the leading Ethiopic Grammar may prove not wholly unwelcome to English-speaking students. . . . Few competent judges will challenge the claim of Dillmann's Grammar to be thus described. . . . The serious student of Ethiopic must still have recourse to Dillmann's work, particularly in the form given to it in the second edition by Prof. Bezold. It is from that edition that the present translation has been rendered.
From the Translator's Prefatory Note