Edward Ullendorff (b. 1920) is a British academic, and an authority on Semitic languages and Ethiopia. He is now Professor Emeritus at SOAS, where he was Professor of Ethiopian Studies and then of Semitic Languages,. He was previously Lecturer in Semitic Languages at the University of St. Andrews, and Professor of Ethiopic at the University of Oxford. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... The Semitic languages are the northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages, and the only family of this group spoken in Asia. ... A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 primarily as an institution to train British administrators for colonial postings, and has grown into one of the worlds foremost institutions for the study of Asia and Africa. ... University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410-1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Works

• Exploration and Study of Abyssinia. A brief survey
• The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. A Comparative Phonology (1955)
• An Amharic Chrestomathy (1965)
• The challenge of Amharic (1965) An inaugural lecture delivered on 28 October 1964
• The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People (1966)
• Ethiopia and the Bible (1968) Schweich Lectures of The British Academy 1967
• Is Biblical Hebrew a Language? (1977)
• Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie of Ethiopia (1978)
• The Amharic Letters Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia to Queen Victoria and Her Special Envoy (1979) with David L. Appleyard, Girma-Selassie Asfaw
• The Hebrew Letters of Prester John (1982) with C. F. Beckingham.
• A Tigrinya Chrestomathy (1985)
• The Two Zions : Reminiscences of Jerusalem and Ethiopia (1989)
• From Emperor Haile Selassie to H. J. Polotsky Collected Papers IV: An Ethiopian and Semitic Miscellany
• From the Bible to Enrico Cerulli A Miscellany of Ethiopian and Semitic Papers

References

• Simon Hopkins, "Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Edward Ullendorff", in: Journal of Semitic Studies XXXIV/2 (1989), pp. 253-289.
• Dina Ullendorff, "Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Edward Ullendorff (1988-99)", in: Journal of Semitic Studies XLV/1 (2000), pp. 131-136.