Getatchew Haile (Amharic: ጌታቸው ኀይሌ, romanized: Gētachew Ḫäyilē; April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021)[1] was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language[2] and one of its most prolific (he published more than 150 books and articles).[3] He was acknowledged for his contributions to the field with a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius" award[4][5] and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the Council of the British Academy.[6] He was the first Ethiopian and the first African to win the award.[7][8][9]
^Bausi, Alessandro, and Thomas Rave. "A Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Getatchew Haile." In Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History: Festschrift for Getatchew Haile, edited by Adam Carter McCollum. Aethiopistische Forschungen 83, 609-19. Wiesbaden, London: Harrassowitz Verlag; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London, 2017.
^Ullendorff, Edward (1996). "Review of A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville. Vol. X. Project Numbers 4001-5000". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 59 (1): 205–206. ISSN0041-977X. JSTOR619459.
^"African-American Recipients of MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grants," 1981-1996". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (13): 51. 1996. ISSN1077-3711. JSTOR2963164.