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Godfrid Storms
Born(1911-05-04)4 May 1911
Sittard, Netherlands
Died20 October 2003(2003-10-20) (aged 92)
Nijmegen, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Other namesFrits Storms
SpouseGré Wilmink
Academic background
Alma materCatholic University of Nijmegen
ThesisAnglo-Saxon Magic (1948)
Doctoral advisorAurelius Pompen
Academic work
DisciplineOld and Middle English Literature
InstitutionsCatholic University of Nijmegen

Godfrid Storms (4 May 1911 – 20 October 2003)

Anglo-Saxon charms in 1948, superseding a work that had stood as the authority for forty years,[3] before obtaining his professorship there in 1956.[2] Among his many other works were articles on Beowulf and the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.[2][4]

Early life and education

Godfrid Storms, known as "Frits", was born in Sittard, Netherlands, on 4 May 1911.[1] He was educated at Radboud University Nijmegen where he had Aurelius Pompen as his doctoral adviser, and on 4 June 1948 successfully defended his dissertation.[5][3]

Career

In 1956 Storms became a Professor of Old and Middle English Literature, also at Radboud University.[2] During his time there he published many articles on the subject, notably The Subjectivity of the Style of Beowulf and Grammatical Expressions of Emotiveness.[2][6] Other articles also took the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf as a subject,[7][8][9] and another the Sutton Hoo ship-burial discovered in Suffolk in 1939.[4] Among the doctoral students that Storm promoted was W. J. M. Bronzwaer (nl), in 1970,[10] a year after Storms had visited the University of Nottingham as part of an exchange program between it and Radboud.[2]

Storms continued to be known for Anglo-Saxon Magic,[2] his 1948 dissertation which was soon thereafter published.[3] The work comprised an anthropological and psychological discussion of "magic" as understood by the Anglo-Saxons, and a discussion of 86 Anglo-Saxon charms in Old English and Latin.[11] A lengthy review by the Harvard Anglo-Saxonist Francis Peabody Magoun called it an "interesting and important" work that would supersede a work published by Felix Grendon in 1909.[3] "All students of the Anglo-Saxon charms," wrote Magoun Jr., "will be grateful to Dr Storms for his edition, in all respects an advance on Grendon's once important study."[12]

Personal life

Storms had a wife, Gré Wilmink, as well as children, grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.[1] His wife died before him; he himself died on 20 October 2003, at the age of 92, in Nijmegen.[1]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d Knipselkrant.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Thorpe 1970, p. 1.
  3. ^ a b c d Magoun 1953, p. 203.
  4. ^ a b Storms 1978.
  5. ^ Storms 1948, pp. IV–V.
  6. ^ Storms 1963.
  7. ^ Storms 1957a.
  8. ^ Storms 1959.
  9. ^ Storms 1999.
  10. ^ Bronzwaer 1970, p. IV.
  11. ^ Magoun 1953, pp. 203–204.
  12. ^ Magoun 1953, p. 212.

Bibliography

External links

  • Three photographs at: "Storms, Godfrid". Memory of the Netherlands. National Library of the Netherlands. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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