Encyclopaedia Aethiopica
The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (EAE) is a five-volume English - language reference work on Ethiopian studies .
It was edited by Siegbert Uhlig (and since the 4th volume also by Alessandro Bausi ) at the Department of African and Ethiopian Studies at the University of Hamburg and developed with the collaboration of numerous international specialists. It was published by Harrassowitz Verlag .
The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica deals with the intellectual history of Northeast Africa from prehistory to 1974 and contains basic data such as economy and geography, history, language and linguistics, ethnology, biographies, religion and art. Spatially, it includes the entire "Orbis Aethiopicus", ie in addition to the core countries of Ethiopia, Ethiopia and Eritrea , the entire Horn of Africa with (parts of) Kenya , Somalia , Djibouti and Sudan .
The reference work consists of the following five volumes:
- Volume 1: A-C. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04746-1 , XXXII + 846 pages.
- Volume 2: D-Ha. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05238-4 , XXXVIII + 1082 pages.
- Volume 3: He-N. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05607-X , XVIII + 1211 pages.
- Volume 4: O-X. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06246-6 , XXX + 1199 pages.
- Volume 5: Y-Z. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-06740-9 , XXXII + 1270 pages.
In addition to the last two letters of the alphabet, the fifth volume also contains the supplements , corrigenda and addenda , an appendix with maps and an index .
literature
- Hatem Elliesie: The second volume of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica in comparison. In: Orientalist literary newspaper. Vol. 102, Issue 4-5, 2007, pp. 397-407, doi : 10.1524 / olzg.2007.102.45.397 .