Ronald Noel Walpole

Ronald Noel Walpole (born December 24, 1903 in Monmouthshire , Wales , † November 1986 in Berkeley , California ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist of British origin.

life and work

Walpole grew up in Wales. In 1925 he passed his bachelor's degree, spent a year in France and taught in Whitehaven and London until 1936 . During this time he also passed the master's degree at the University of Wales with a thesis on the Old French translations of the pseudo-Turpin ( Historia Caroli Magni ).

Walpole, who married an American in 1934, went to the University of California at Berkeley for doctoral studies in 1936 . In 1939 he received his doctorate with the work A study and edition of the Old French "Johannis" translation of the Pseudo-Turpin chronicle . He was then at Berkeley Instructor (1939), Assistant Professor (1943), Associate Professor (1948) and finally Professor from 1950 to his retirement in 1971 (Chairman from 1957 to 1963).

Walpole received a Guggenheim Fellowship in French literature in 1949 . He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970).

Other works

• Charlemagne and Roland. A study of the sources of two English metrical romances, "Roland and Vernagu" and "Otuel and Roland", Berkeley 1944
• Philip Mouskés and the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle , Berkeley 1947
• (Ed.) The Old French Johannes translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle. A critical edition , 2 vols., Berkeley 1976
• (Ed.) An anonymous Old French translation of the Pseudo-Turpin "Chronicle". A critical edition of the text contained in Bibliothèque nationale MSS fr. 2137 and 17203 and incorporated by Philippe Mouskés in his "Chronique rimée" , Cambridge (Mass.) 1979
• (Ed.) Le Turpin français, dit le Turpin I , Toronto 1985

Web links

• Literature by and about Ronald Noel Walpole in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb6z09p0jh&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00049&toc.depth=1&toc.id= (obituary)