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Eric Stanley
British Anglo-Saxonist academic ()
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Eric Gerald Stanley, FBA (19 October – 20 June ) was a German-British Anglo-Saxonist; he was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from to and was emeritus professor until his death.
Early life and education
Stanley was born in Germany; in his family moved to England to escape Nazi Germany,[1] and he was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn and at University College, Oxford, to which he won a scholarship in [1][2] He served in the Second World War.[2]
Career
He taught at Birmingham University from to , then at Queen Mary College, London, first as Reader and from as Professor in English Language and Literature.
In he took up a professorship at Yale University, in the United States, before being elected Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford begi