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- 1995-2008 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
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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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Mrs Sarah J. C. Green, March 2023.
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Scope and content
Notes and drafts for an unfinished book on authorship in medieval literature, together with scripts of a few unpublished lectures given by Green, and a small amount of correspondence with other scholars in related fields: Nigel F. Palmer, Malcolm B. Parkes, and David Dumville.