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page 1Anglo-Saxon studies scholars

J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
Michael Wood
English historian and broadcaster (born 1948)
Henry Sweet
British linguist (1845–1912)
Eduard Sievers
German germanist and linguist (1850-1932)
Frederic William Maitland
British historian (1850–1906)
William Stubbs
British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901)
Paul Vinogradoff
Russian historian (1854–1925)
Frank Stenton
British historian (1880–1967)
Tom Shippey
British linguist, critic, fiction writer
Hilda Ellis Davidson
British academic (1914-2006)
Benjamin Thorpe
English scholar
John Mitchell Kemble
English scholar and historian (1807–1857)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
English writer and translator (born 1941)

Sharon Turner
English historian (1768–1847)

Nora Kershaw Chadwick
British medievalist (1891-1972)

Barbara Yorke
English historian
David M. Wilson
British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator
Francis Palgrave
British historian
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
British academic (1845–1937)
Randolph Quirk
British linguist (1920-2017)
Joseph Bosworth
British philologist
Philip Grierson
British academic and numismatist (1910–2006)
Elizabeth Elstob
English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)
Johann Martin Lappenberg
German historian (1794-1865)
Julius Zupitza
German philologist (1844–1895)
Caroline Agnes Brady
American philologist
Nicholas Brooks
British medieval historian and archaeologist

Roger Mynors
British classical scholar (1903–1989)

Kemp Malone
American academic (1889–1971)
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
British historian (1916-1985)
Winfred Philip Lehmann
American linguist
Thomas Charles-Edwards
British historian
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
British judge and Egyptologist

John Allen Giles
historian
David Dumville
British historian (1949–2024)

Frederick Klaeber
German academic (1863–1954)

Henry Mayr-Harting
British historian
Felix Liebermann
German historian (1851–1925)

Pauline Stafford
British historian (born 1948)
Peter Hayes Sawyer
British historian (1928–2018)
Peter Hunter Blair
British academic and historian (1912–1982)
Alistair Campbell
scholar of Anglo-Saxon studies
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
American scholar of Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon literature, translator, fiction writer
Francis March
American classical philologist (1825–1911)
Abraham Wheelocke
English linguist
Ann Williams
English historian
Michael D. C. Drout
Professor of English and Tolkien researcher
Robin Flower
British writer and scholar (1881–1946)
Helen Damico
American literary scholar (1931-2020)
Frederic Seebohm
historian and banker (1833-1912)
Sarah Foot
English Anglican priest and historian (born 1961)
Frank Barlow
British historian
Johannes Hoops
German philologist and historian (1865–1949)
Charles Leslie Wrenn
English linguist and scholar of English literature and Anglo-Saxon
David Knowles
Benedictine monk and historian (1896-1974)