Over the years, in addition to my main topics of research, I am following smaller topics and publishing occasionally on my findings following these paths.


Medieval Arabic Inscriptions

  1. ‣A Note on the Islamic Heritage of Tigray: the Current Situation of the Arabic Inscription of Wuqro, in: ITYOP̣IS, Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. I/2011, 150-53

  2. ‣“Another unknown Arabic inscription from the eastern Tigrayan trade route: Indication for a Muslim cult site during the ‚Dark Age’?“, in: Walter Raunig - Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate (eds.), Orbis Aethiopicus. Beiträge zur Geschichte, Religion und Kunst Äthiopiens.  In memoriam Peter Roenpage. Juden, Christen und Muslime in Äthiopien - ein Beispiel für abrahamische Ökumene. Dettelbach: Verlag J. H. Röll, 2010,  Band XIII, pp. 179-91 (German text: Eine weitere arabische Inschrift von der osttigrayischen Handelsroute: Hinweis auf eine muslimische Kultstätte in der "dunklen Periode"?, in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 12, 2009, 126–35)

  3. ‣Eine arabische Inschrift in Kwiḥa, Tigray, in: Verena Böll - Denis Nosnitsin - Thomas Rave - Wolbert Smidt - Evgenia Sokolinskaia (Hrsg.): Studia Aethiopica In Honour of Siegbert Uhlig on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday [Festschrift]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2004, S. 259-268


Honorary titles in Ethiopian history

  1. ‣Ein erster Beleg für den Titel „léʿul“ unter léǧ Iyasu, in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 10, 2007, 194-98

  2. ‣Ləʿul [modern Ethiopian title], together with Asfa-Wossen Asserate, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007, vol. 3 (He-N), 556

  3. ‣The Amharic document on the 'nobilitation' of Léonce Lagarde by Menilek II, in: Pount (forthcoming)


Minorities in Ethiopian society and history

  1. ‣„Azmari, Ch’era wat’a or “Artists” – Itinerant Singers in Tigray“, Paper presented at the Conference “From Ambivalence to Acceptance – 1st International Conference on Azmari in Ethiopia”, Center for World Music, Universität Hildesheim, 6.-8. Januar 2012

  2. ‣Preliminary Report on an Ethnohistorical Research Among the Ch’aré People, a Hidden Ethnic Splinter Group in Western Tigray, in: ITYOP̣IS, Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. I/2011, 102-25

  3. ‣Šanqəlla [deragotory term for 'slaves'], in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 4 (O-X), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2010, S. 525-27

  4. ‣Slavery: The slavery question in politics [Abolition politics in the Horn of Africa], in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 4 (O-X), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2010, S. 680f.


Monetary History of Northeastern Africa

  1. ‣Salz und Amolé in Tigray, Zur Geschichte und sozialen Funktion einer traditionellen Währung, in: money-trend (mt) 2/2013, 166-170

  2. ‣Geheimnisse aus Aksum und Nachbargebieten, Berichte aus der mündlichen Tradition Nordäthiopiens über Münzfundorte und deren Bedeutung, in: money-trend [Wien] 44, November 2012 (11/2012), 196-201

  3. ‣Der spanische Säulenpiaster als Vorläufer des Maria-Theresia-Talers, Internationales Silbergeld im lokalen Kontext in den nordäthiopischen Grenzgebieten und dem Tiefland Erythräas, money trend 41, 4, April 2009, 152–58

  4. ‣Maria Theresa Thaler [Ethiopian currency], together with Catherine Vanderhaeghe, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2007, vol. 3 (He-N), 784-86

  5. ‣Currency, Traditional, together with Sevir Chernetsov, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003, vol. 1 (A - C), 828f.

  6. ‣Currency, Modern, together with Richard Pankhurst, Jacques Druart, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003, vol. 1 (A - C), 829-31


 

Small Series of Topics (Selection)

  1. ‣Main Publications

  2. ‣Ethnic groups, subgroups, social groups in Northeastern Africa (Selection)

  3. ‣Northeastern Africa in the 19th to 20th centuries (Selection)

  4. ‣Political Anthropology and Contemporary Issues (Selection)

  5. ‣History of International Relations of Ethiopia (Selection)

  6. ‣Heritage Sites in Northeastern Africa and Ancient History (Selection)

  7. ‣Editions of Historical Sources

  8. ‣Biographies in Northeastern Africa

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  1. ‣Tigray / Ethiopia: Ethnography and History (Selection)

  2. ‣Eritrea: Ethnography and History

  3. ‣Northern Sudan: Ethnography and History (Selection)

  4. ‣Djibouti / Somalia: Ethnography and History (Selection)

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  1. ‣Iconographic Heritage, Photography of Northeastern Africa (Selection)

  2. ‣History of Social Anthropology, History of Research and Imagination of Africa (Selection)

  3. ‣Encyclopaedia Articles on the History of Exploration and Research in Africa

  4. ‣Biographies in European Religious and Regional History (16th-19th Centuries) (Selection)

  5. ‣Regional History, Genealogy and Anthropology in European Regions (Eastern Frisia, Northern Germany, Saxony-Anhalt etc.) (Selection)

  6. ‣Small Series of Topics (Selection)

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  1. ‣Exhibitions

  2. ‣Articles in Newspapers and Magazines (Selection)