Stefan Strelcyn

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

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Stefan Strelcyn was born at Warsaw on 1918. At 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 inthe Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 1945 he studied classical Ethiopic and Amharic at the Sorbonne, the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. 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 Sellassie Prize for Ethiopian studies. He died at Manchester on 1981.^[1]

1950: Sur une priere ’Falacha’ publiee par C. conti Rossini :‎ dans les ’appunti di storia E letteratura Falascia’. Roma: Piox.
1951: Un magicien grec en Ethiopie. Paris: Imprimerie nationale.
1954: Catalogue des manuscrits ethiopiens (Collection Griaule). Paris: Bibliothèque nationale.
1955: Prières magiques éthiopiennes pour délier les charmes (maftəḥe šərāy). Warsaw: P.W.N.
1956: La litterature Religiouse Falacha (etat de la question). Bologna : N. Zanichelli.
1981: "Les mystères des Psaumes, traité éthiopien sur l'emploi des Psaumes (amharique ancien)", in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 44/1, pp. 54-84.

Tubiana, Joseph (1982). "Stefan Strelcyn F.B.A. (1918-1981)", in: Journal of Semitic Studies 27/1, pp. 1-15.
Ullendorff, Edward (1981). "Stefan Strelcyn (1918-1981)", in: The British Academy, Proceedings, Vol. LXVII, London [= E. Ullendorff, Studia Aethiopica et Semitica (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1987), pp. 289-300]