Getatchew Haile

Getatchew Haile (April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021) was an Ethiopian-American philologist.

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"I have a problem in living which century I live. When I read those manuscripts, I'm taken away there. Sometimes I'm totally taken with them, with the monks and the ancient libraries and the ancient monasteries and then, when someone passes by me in their office and speaks English, I say, "What?" But then I realize I am in an English-speaking world."