David Dumville
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David Norman Dumville (born 5 May 1949) is a British medievalist and Celtic scholar. He was educated at Emmanuel College and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; and received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He is professor emeritus of Celtic & Anglo-Saxon at the University of Aberdeen. He has previously taught or held posts at Swansea University (Fellow, 1975–1977), the University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor of English, 1977–1978), the University of Cambridge, (lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 1977–1991; reader in early Mediaeval history and culture of British Isles, 1991–1995; professor of palaeography and cultural history, 1995–2005). Among other academic appointments, he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1995).[1][2]
Publications
Dumville has produced numerous scholarly articles and books. In 2007, he established a scholarly journal for Anglo-Saxon studies, entitled Anglo-Saxon, which ceased after one issue. He was a founding member of the Medieval Chronicle Society.
References
- ^ "Professor David Dumville". Staff directory. University of Aberdeen.
- ^ "David Dumville (b 1949)". dumville.org.
- 1949 births
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- British historians
- Linguists from the United Kingdom
- Celtic studies scholars
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Academics of the University of Aberdeen
- Academics of Swansea University
- Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge
- Living people
- Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
- Historians of the British Isles