Veronika Six

Veronika Six is a scholar of Ethiopian and African studies, ethnology, and educational science. She received her PhD from Hamburg University, editing an Ethiopic hagiographic text (published as VOHD 18). Since 1974 she has served as cataloguer of Ethiopic manuscripts in German and Swiss collections. Six is employed in the German project, Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections (KOHD) where she works on the Ethiopian and Coptic Christian-Arabic manuscripts of the State and University Library at Hamburg. Working with diverse Ethiopic texts as source materials, she has published several articles on history, religion, codicology, and art.