Alistair Campbell (12 December 1907 – 5 February 1974) was a British academic who was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford, and Fellow of

Pembroke College, Oxford Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located at Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named after ...

, from October 1963 until his death. He was the editor of editions of the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

poem " Battle of Brunanburh",

Æthelweard Æthelweard, also spelled Ethelweard, Aethelweard, Athelweard, etc., is an Anglo-Saxon male name. It may refer to: * King Æthelweard of the Hwicce (''fl''. 7/8th century) * King Æthelweard of East Anglia (''fl.'' mid-9th century) * Æthelweard (s ...

's ''Chronicon'' and Æthelwulf's '' De abbatibus''. He was the author of ''Old English Grammar'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959 ). He translated the mediaeval Latin text, ''Encomium Emmae Reginae'', into modern English for the first time, published in 1949. This was reprinted in 1998 by Cambridge University Press, with a supplementary introduction from Simon Keynes. Campbell first drew the distinction between the classical and

hermeneutic Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles or methods used when immediate c ...

styles of late Roman and early medieval Latin.Campbell, 1953; Lapidge, p. 105

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* * * 1907 births 1974 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Rawlinson and Bosworth Professors of Anglo-Saxon Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford Anglo-Saxon studies scholars 20th-century British historians {{UK-academic-bio-stub