Hector Munro Chadwick

Hector Munro Chadwick (22 October 1870 –2 January 1947) was an English philologist and historian, professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge (1912–41).^[1] He helped develop an integral approach to Old English studies.^[1] With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry, published 1932-1940. In this he further developed the theory of a Heroic Age which he had previously stated in a publication of 1912.

He was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge.^[2] He was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge from 1912 to 1941.

Works

Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions (1905)
The Origin of the English Nation (1907)
The Heroic Age (1912)
The Growth of Literature, with N. Kershaw Chadwick:

I: The Ancient Literatures of Europe (1932)

II: Russian Oral Literature, Yugoslav Oral Poetry, Early Indian Literature, Early Hebrew Literature (1936)

III: The Oral Literature of the Tatars and Polynesia, etc. (1940)

The Study of Anglo-Saxon
The Nationalities of Europe and the Growth of National Ideologies (1945)
Early Scotland. The Picts the Scots & the Welsh of Southern Scotland (1949)

References

^ ^a ^b "H. Munro Chadwick". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010.
^ Chadwick, Hector Munro in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

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