# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hector-munro-chadwick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:11.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hector-munro-chadwick"
name: "Hector Munro Chadwick"
slug: "hector-munro-chadwick"
description: "Hector Munro Chadwick was an English philologist. Chadwick was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and the founder and head of the Department for Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies at the University of Cambridge. Chadwick was well known for his encouragement of interdisciplinary research on Celts and Germanic peoples, and for his theories on the Heroic Age in the history of human societies. Chadwick was a tutor of many notable students and the author of numerous influential works in his fields of study. Much of his research and teaching was conducted in cooperation with his wife, former student and fellow Cambridge scholar Nora Kershaw."
tagline: "English philologist and historian (1870-1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hector_Munro_Chadwick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1870-10-22"
deathDate: "1947-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.75609756097561
  historical:           4.808676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "هيكتور مونرو تشادويك"
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    title: "Hector Munro Chadwick"
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    title: "Hector Munro Chadwick"
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    title: "Hector Munro Chadwick"
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    title: "Чедвик, Гектор Манро"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump