Dennis Howard Green

Dennis Howard Green (26 June 1922 – 5 December 2008) was Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge.

Life and work

Green studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was awarded a PhD in 1949 in Basel. He is the author of many books and scholarly essays in the field of medieval language and literature.

Academia

Green was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1979 he became the Schröder Professor of German at Cambridge University. In 1989, he became a Fellow of the British Academy.

Family

He married Dorothy Warren in 1947 (died 2006; one daughter; marriage dissolved 1972), in 1972 he married Margaret Parry (died 1997), in 2001 he married Sarah Redpath.

Bibliography

The Annual Record of Trinity College for 2009 has obituaries by Roger Paulin and Nigel Palmer. The latter contains a reference to a speech which Green made on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.