1. Getatchew Haile was acknowledged for his contributions to the field with a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius" award and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the Council of the British Academy.
12 Facts About Getatchew Haile
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Getatchew Haile was the first Ethiopian and the first African to win the award.
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Getatchew Haile then moved to West Germany in 1957, where he received a Ph.
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Getatchew Haile married Misrak Amare on July 12,1964, in Sidamo.
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Getatchew Haile was left as a paraplegic due to bullet damage to his spinal cord, and needed to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.
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Getatchew Haile was associate professor in the Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature, Getatchew Haile Selassie I University, from 1962 to 1969, and 1971 to 1974, where he taught Amharic Grammar, Amharic Literature, Ge'ez Grammar, Ge'ez Literature, Arabic Grammar, and Semitic Linguistics.
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Getatchew Haile was appointed head of the department in 1965.
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Getatchew Haile was on the advisory board of a number of journals, including Comite de lecture of Analecta Bollandiana, Ethiopian Journal of Education, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Northeast African Studies, Ethiopian Register, and Acta Aethiopica.
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Getatchew Haile's work has frequently been described as foundational to the field of Ethiopian studies and has won many awards.
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Getatchew Haile served as a confidante of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 1960s, as well as the Church's representative to the World Council of Churches.
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Getatchew Haile remained critical of the successive Ethiopian governments: in 2005, Ethiopian authorities charged him in absentia with treason for his comments.
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Getatchew Haile died at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital on June 10,2021, at the age of 90.