Dennis Howard Green was an English philologist who was Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. He specialized in Germanic philology, particularly the study of Medieval German literature, Germanic languages and Germanic antiquity. Green was considered one of the world's leading authorities in these subjects, on which he was the author of numerous influential works.
Tristan and Isolde by Herbert James Draper (1901). Green's Ph.D. thesis concerned the work Tristan and Iseult.
Illuminated manuscript page of Parzival. Green was a known authority on Parzival and other pieces of Medieval German literature.
Vendel Period (Germanic Iron Age) helmet at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities. Researching early Germanic culture and history was one of Green's greatest scholarly interests.
Picture of Trinity College, Cambridge, with which Green was affiliated throughout his entire adult life.
Friedrich Ranke was a German medievalist philologist and folklorist. His Old Norse textbook Altnordisches Elementarbuch remains a standard, and all literature concerning Gottfried von Strassburgs Tristan und Isold uses Ranke's line numbering for references to the text.
Friedrich Ranke
