# Gabriel Turville-Petre

> Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre was an English philologist who specialized in Old Norse studies. Born at Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire to a prominent Catholic family, Turville-Petre was educated in English at the University of Oxford under the tutelage of J. R. R. Tolkien. He eventually became Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford and a leading member of the Viking Society for Northern Research. He was the husband of fellow philologist Joan Turville-Petre, who was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies at Oxford. Turville-Petre was the author of numerous works on Old Norse literature and religion which have remained influential up to the present day.

*English philologist (1908-1978)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1908-03-25
- **Died:** 1978-02-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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