Hector Munro Chadwick (22 October 1870 –2 January 1947) was an English scholar. He is known as a philologist and historian of literature. 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.[1] He was Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge from 1912 to 1941.
Works
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- 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:
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- 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
- ^ Chadwick, Hector Munro in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
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