Hector Munro Chadwick

Hector Munro Chadwick ( born October 22, 1870 in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, † January 2, 1947 in Cambridge ) was a British anglistischer medievalist and historian. He was from 1912 to 1941 Professor of older English Language and Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Chadwick forscherischer focus was the comparative literature and cultural studies of Indo-European peoples and selected other cultures. In particular, the comparison and research on European and especially to the Germanic heroic saga. His basic findings on the determination of a hero age ( " Heroic Age " ), and his subsequent research by Cecil Maurice Bowra to oral tradition traditions ( "oral formulaic poetry " ) of narrative patterns in the legend to writing skills, is a basis of modern Heldensagen research. In addition, he wore science didactic in England help the courses and study of the Old English language, literature and culture integrally oriented align.

Chadwick was married to Nora Kershaw Chadwick philologist, with whom he also published together.

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)
Heroic Age (literary theory) Oxford Professor of Poetry John Venn Cambridge University Press Name Authority File
380793
de