A. F. Scholfield

Alwyn Faber Scholfield (1884–1969) was a British classical scholar and librarian of the University of Cambridge 1923–49.

Scholfield worked in Cambridge University Library on classical and early printed books in 1911–12.

He was elected librarian of the University of Cambridge in 1923, and held that post until 1949.

During his tenure he supervised the removal of the library from Old Schools to its current site and managed it on restricted resources during the Second World War.

[2] He translated and edited Claudius Aelianus's De natura animalium in three volumes (1958–1959) and also Nicander's poems and poetical fragments with A. S. F. Gow (1953) for the Loeb Classical Library.