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       Aethiopica 12 (2009) International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies     ________________________________________________________________  Personalia Academic News Denis Nosnitsin receives a grant of the European Research Council Aethiopica 12 (2009), 207߃208 ISSN: 1430߃1938 ________________________________________________________________  Published by UniversitÃt Hamburg Asien Afrika Institut, Abteilung Afrikanistik und £thiopistik Hiob Ludolf Zentrum fÛr £thiopistik     Aethiopica 12 (2009) Personalia Academic News Alessandro Bausi:   new Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Hamburg University Alessandro Bausi (until now Associate Professor at the Universit¿ di Napoli ߋL߈Orientaleߌ) has accepted the call for W3 Professur (Full Professorship) for £thiopistik (Ethiopian Studies) at Hamburg University. Thus on 1 September 2009 the vacancy that has lasted for over five years and has had negative effects in particular in the academic teaching area will be over. As for research activities, they have been provisionally carried out by the re-tired Professor on a voluntary basis. Bausi (born 1963) studied Latin and Greek philology, general and Semitic linguistics and Ethiopic languages at the University of Florence. He was awarded doctorate degree at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples in 1992 for his dissertation ߋIl Senodos etiopico: edizione critica e traduzione dei testi pseudoapostolici ineditiߌ. In 1994 he became ߋRicercatoreߌ (Assistant Professor) at the same University and in 2002 followed the call to Associate Professor. His teaching experience has stretched for over 15 years; he has published six monographs/text editions, edited three volumes, and authored over 50 articles published in various journals and collections as well as 19 reviews and review articles. His research interests lie mainly in philology, including digital philology, text criticism and manuscript studies. Concerning research the new Professor at Hamburg University is ex-pected to primarily engage himself in editing the ENCYCLOPAEDIA AETHIOPICA and the AETHIOPICA journal, supervising the long-term fed-eral cataloguing project Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, with the focus on Ethiopic, Christian Arabic and Coptic manuscripts, as well as steering the freshly launched network ߋComparative Oriental Manuscript Studiesߌ. The editor and the editorial team of the AETHIOPICA journal congratu-late Alessandro Bausi and wish him success in all his endeavours. Denis Nosnitsin receives a grant of the European Research Council Denis Nosnitsin (researcher at the Research Unit Ethiopian Studies, Ham-burg University) has been among this year߈s awardees of the ERC Starting Independent Researcher߈s Grant. The award of ߫ 1,740,000 will allow Denis Nosnitsin to establish a research group to work on the project entitled Academic News Aethiopica 12 (2009) 208ߋETHIO-SPARE: Cultural heritage of Christian Ethiopia: Salvation, Preser-vation and Researchߌ. The team߈s primary aim will be to secure important pieces of historical written evidence, documenting, creating digital copies and detailed descriptions for manuscripts preserved in ecclesiastic libraries across Ethiopia. High-standard manuscript catalogues will be produced, as well as text studies of different types. In memoriam Abraham Johannes Drewes  (18 July 1927߃19 October 2007)1 HARRY STROOMER, Leiden University  Bram Drewes was born on July 18th, 1927 in Batavia and spent his first ten years there. About his childhood in Indonesia he has not told me much, however he shared more stories with me about his university education and academic development which I would characterise as both impressive and adventurous. Bram took his finals at the Leiden Municipal Grammar School in 1945, immediately after the end of the Second World War. He enrolled at Leiden University as a student of Indonesian languages and literatures which at the time entailed the study of Arabic and Sanskrit. In 1948 he obtained his Bache-lor߈s degree, but the prevailing political circumstances meant that pursuing the study of his first choice was not expedient. Having already been trained in Arabic, Bram switched to the study of Semitic languages. He obtained his Bachelor߈s degree in 1949 with Arabic as his primary and Hebrew as his sec-ondary subject. In the same year he became acquainted with Jacques Ryckmans who had come to Leiden as a Belgian exchange student in order to improve his Arabic. They became close friends and it was through this friend-ship that Bram was brought into contact with Leuven߈s speciality at the time: the epigraphy, or study of inscriptions, of pre-Islamic North and South Ara-bia. These subjects were not taught in Leiden but Bram was eager to pursue them. He applied for a scholarship to enable him to study in Leuven, and so became a student of the famous professor Gonzague Ryckmans, Jacques Ryckmans߈ uncle, during the second semester of 1950 and the first semester of 1951. In Leuven the foundation was laid for Bram߈s extensive knowledge of Ancient South Arabian, a group of languages comprising Sabaean, Qataba- 1 I thank Carolien van Zoest and David Waines for the help in translating the Dutch ver-sion of this text and Robert Kerr for his help in the compilation of the Bibliography. 

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