George Hardin Brown was an American scholar of medieval studies. The focus of his scholarship includes Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon literature, especially the work of the Venerable Bede. Brown had a long academic career at many renowned institutions and has studied under other notable scholars in his field. He died on November 6, 2021.

Education

Brown received his B.A. (1955), Ph.L. (1956), and M.A. (1959) degrees from

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. He also studied theology in Austria before returning to the United States. Brown earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971, from a department that included scholars of medieval and oral literature such as Francis Peabody Magoun, Albert Lord, and

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Professional career

After receiving his Ph.D., Brown took a position at

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, where he worked until his death and where he headed the Medieval Studies Program in the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences. In 1994 he gave the

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, which is considered a foundational work in early English textual studies. In 1996, at the Bede Foundation in Jarrow, he gave the Jarrow Lecture. Before his death he was editing a new edition of Bede's historical works (''Opera historica minora''), to be published by Brepols for the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina.

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