Stefan Strelcyn

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Stefan Strelcyn (28 June 1918 - 19 May 1981) was a Polish scholar of Ethiopian Studies and a Semitist.

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Life

Stefan Strelcyn was born at Warsaw on 1918. In Warsaw he attended the Gimnazjum Ascola and the Technical Engineering School. In 1938 he left Poland and went to Belgium where he devoted himself to oriental archaeology and philology in the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 1945 he studied classical Ethiopic and Amharic at the Sorbonne, the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and the École pratique des hautes études. He was a student of Marcel Cohen. In 1950 he was expelled from France to Poland, where he became an Associate Professor of Semitic Studies. In 1954 he became a full professor. In 1967 he was awarded the Haile Selassie Prize for Ethiopian studies.

In 1981 he died in Manchester. [1]

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  1. See Ullendorff 1981.