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Green, Dennis Howard (1922-2008), philologist
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1922-2008
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Dennis Howard Green was admitted to Trinity October 1940 as an Entrance Scholar and State Scholar. After the war he returned to Trinity and read Modern Languages,,and then did his doctoral research with Friedrich Ranke in Basel. He was elected to a research fellowship at Trinity in 1949, and then to a University Lectureship in Cambridge. In 1966 he became the first chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Cambridge, and in 1978 was elected the Schröder Professor of German. He retired in 1989, maintaining an active scholar's life, writing and lecturing until his death in 2008.
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Paulin, Roger. "Professor Dennis Howard Green," Trinity College Annual Record, 2009, pp. 117-119.