Alistair Campbell (12 December 1907 – 5 February 1974) was a British academic who was

Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, until 1916 known as the Rawlinsonian Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, was established by Richard Rawlinson of St John's College, Oxford, in 1795. The Chair is associated with Pembroke Colleg ...

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, and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, 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 settlers in the mid-5th c ...

poem "

Battle of Brunanburh The Battle of Brunanburh was fought in 937 between Æthelstan, King of England, and an alliance of Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scotland, and Owain, King of Strathclyde. The battle is often cited as the poin ...

", Æthelweard'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 Simon Douglas Keynes, ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British author who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity Colleg ...

. Campbell first drew the distinction between the classical and hermeneutic 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