Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

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The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Oxford dedicated to the study and teaching of Old English language and literature.

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Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic position
endowed chair
professorship
academicInstitution University of Oxford
academicRank professor
affiliation University of Oxford
areaOfResponsibility research in Old English
supervision of graduate students in Anglo-Saxon studies
teaching Old English
country United Kingdom
discipline English language
English literature
medieval studies
philology
employer University of Oxford
field Anglo-Saxon studies
Old English language
Old English literature
hasDomain humanities
medieval philology
hasHadHolder Andy Orchard
Bruce Mitchell
Dorothy Whitelock
J. R. R. Tolkien
surface form: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Joseph Bosworth
Malcolm Godden
Rafael J. Pascual
inception 1795
isPartOf Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedIn England
Oxford
United Kingdom
namedAfter Joseph Bosworth
Richard Rawlinson
notableFor contributions to Anglo-Saxon scholarship
study of Old English language
study of Old English literature
positionHeldBy J. R. R. Tolkien
sector higher education
traditionallyAssociatedWith Anglo-Saxon England
Beowulf studies
typeOfEndowment university chair

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J. R. R. Tolkien positionHeld Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon