Alfred Ewert

Ewert was an associate professor of French at the University of Texas at Dallas from 1920 to 1921. In 1921, he became the Taylorian Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford, serving until 1926 when he was appointed a university lecturer in French (also being a lecturer at University College from 1922). In 1930, he was appointed Professor of the Romance Languages at Oxford (in succession to E. G. R. Waters), and was elected a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. He remained in both offices until 1958.^[2][3] His most notable book was The French Language (1933), while he edited several versions of French texts: Gui de Warewic (2 vols., 1932–33), Béroul's Tristan (vol. 1 in 1939, vol. 2 in 1970), (with R. C. Johnston) Marie de France's Fables (1942) and Lais (1944).^[3][4] As well as being Senior Proctor at Oxford in 1943–44, Ewert launched and was general editor of the journal French Studies from 1947 to 1965.^[3] He gave the Zaharoff Lecture (University of Oxford, 1958) and the Hurd Memorial Lecture (Brandon University, 1967). His honours including a corresponding fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America, an honorary doctorate, the French Legion of Honour, election to the fellowship of the British Academy in 1957, and the dedication of a Festschrift: Studies in Medieval French (1961).^[5] Ewert died on 22 October 1969.^[3]