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Alessandro Bausi (born in 1963, graduated in 1988 from the University of Florence, PhD in 1992 from the Oriental Institute of Naples) is full professor of Semitic Studies - Languages and Literatures of Ethiopia (s.s.d. STAA-01/G) at Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Arts, and Entertainment (November 2023-‍).

Formerly a researcher (1995) and associate professor (2002) of Ethiopian language and literature at the University of Naples “L'Orientale,” he was professor (W3) of Ethiopian Studies (Äthiopistik) at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik (September 2009-October 2023). He was editor of the journal Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies (2009-2023) and its Supplements (2013-2023), and of the series Aethiopistische Forschungen (2010-2023). He is a consultant for Gǝʿǝz and Ethiopian and Eritrean studies for several other series and journals, including Scriptores aethiopici of the Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium (2010–), and Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (2011–). He is editor of the Encyclopaedia aethiopica (2010-2014), the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies project (funded by the European Science Foundation 2009-2014), and the European Research Council's Advanced Grant project “TraCES: From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages” (2014–2019), he is now scientific director of the long-term project of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg “Beta maṣāḥǝft: Die Schriftkultur des Christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung” (2016-2040). He is a member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg (2011-2023, permanent fellow since November 2023) and was co-director of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures” (2019-2023). He is a Senior Fellow of the SSAS – Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Sapienza Università di Roma (2024–2027). He is a member of several scientific associations, the Academia Europaea, the Accademia Ambrosiana, the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

He has published extensively on the textual and manuscript tradition of Ethiopia and Eritrea, contributing in particular to the study of the earliest phase of scribal, linguistic, and literary history, epigraphy, canonical, hagiographic, and liturgical collections, and textual criticism.