The University of Paris,known metonymically as the Sorbonne,was the leading university in Paris,France from 1150 to 1970,except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of Paris,it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe.
Jean Léon Marie Delumeau was a French historian specializing in the history of the Catholic Church,and author of several books regarding the subject. He held the Chair of the History of Religious Mentalities (1975–1994) at the Collège de France and was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
Otto Eduard Gotfried Ernst Höfler was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A student of Rudolf Much,Höfler was Professor and Chair of German Language and Old German Literature at the University of Vienna. Höfler was also a Nazi from 1922 and a member of the SS Ahnenerbe before the Second World War. Höfler was a close friend of Georges Dumézil and Stig Wikander,with whom he worked closely on developing studies on Indo-European society. He tutored a significant number of future prominent scholars at Vienna,and was the author of works on early Germanic culture. Julia Zernack refers to him as the "perhaps most famous and probably most controversial representative" of the "Vienna School" of Germanic studies founded by Much.
Paris-Sorbonne University was a public research university in Paris,France,active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018,it merged with Pierre and Marie Curie University and some smaller entities to form a new university called Sorbonne University.
Walter Andre Goffart is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years in the history department and Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto (1960–1999),and is currently a senior research scholar at Yale University. He is the author of monographs on a ninth-century forgery,late Roman taxation,four "barbarian" historians,and historical atlases.
Brian Oliver Murdoch is a British philologist who is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Stirling. He specializes in the study of early Germanic and Celtic literature,on which he has authored and edited several influential works.
Robert Pogue Harrison is a professor of literature at Stanford University,where he is Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature in the Department of French &Italian.
William E. Burgwinkle is a UK-based American medievalist and French scholar. He is an emeritus professor in medieval French and Occitan literature at King's College,Cambridge,an emeritus fellow at King's College,and a former president of the Society for French Studies.
Armenian studies or Armenology is a field of humanities covering Armenian history,language and culture. The emergence of modern Armenian studies is associated with the foundation of the Catholic Mechitarist order in the early 18th century. Until the early 20th century,Armenian studies were largely conducted by individual scholars in the Armenian communities of the Russian Empire,Europe,Constantinople and Vagharshapat in Armenia. After the establishment of Soviet rule,Armenian studies,and sciences in general,were institutionalized in Armenia and put under direct control of the Academy of Sciences. Today,numerous research centers in many parts of the world specialize in Armenian studies.
Rudolf Simek is an Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar who is Professor and Chair of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at the University of Bonn. Simek specializes in Germanic studies,and is the author of several notable works on Germanic religion and mythology,Germanic peoples,Vikings,Old Norse literature,and the culture of Medieval Europe.
John Frederick Lindow is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California,Berkeley. He is a well known authority on Old Norse religion and literature.
Jacques Gernet was an eminent French sinologist of the second half of the 20th century. His best-known work is The Chinese Civilization,a 900-page summary of Chinese history and civilization which has been translated into many languages.
Lucien Musset was a French historian,specializing in the Duchy of Normandy and the history of the Vikings.
Sieglinde Hartmann is a German medievalist,expert on the medieval poet Oswald von Wolkenstein and president of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft.
Ann Margaret Jefferson,is a British scholar of French literature. She was a fellow and tutor in French at New College,Oxford,from 1987 to 2015,and professor of French at the University of Oxford from 2006 to 2015.
Joycelynne Eleanor Loncke was a Guyanese academic who was a professor emeritus at the University of Guyana. Her areas of interest included French literature and the history of music.
Michel Zink is a French writer,medievalist,philologist,and professor of French literature,particularly that of the Middle Ages. He is the Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,a title he has held since 2011,and was elected to the Académie française in 2017. In addition to his academic work,he has also written historical crime novels,one of which continues the story of Arsène Lupin.
Herbert (Herb) Schutz was a German-born Canadian philologist who was Professor Emeritus and Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies/Modern Languages,Literatures and Cultures at Brock University.
Robert Dennis Fulk is an American philologist and medievalist who is Professor Emeritus of English and Germanic Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
François-Xavier Dillmann is a French philologist who specializes in Old Norse studies.
