Hector Munro Chadwick

Hector Munro Chadwick (October 22, 1870 –January 2 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. 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)