Profesor Helmut Gneuss (1927–2023)

Professor Helmut Gneuss – an outstanding scholar, medievalist, and historical linguist specializing in manuscript studies, palaeography, language, culture, and writing of medieval England – passed away on the 26th of February 2023. In his professional and scholarly capacity, he was affiliated with many academic centres, starting with the Freie Universität in Berlin, through the universities in Heidelberg, Cambridge, UNC in Chapel Hill, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In the latter, he held the Chair for English Historical Linguistics and Medieval English Literature from 1965 to 1997.