Brian Oliver Murdoch FRHistS (born 26 June 1944) is a British philologist who is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Stirling.
Murdoch is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the editorial board of the Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts series, published by Brill.
[3] Murdoch teaches early Germanic and Celtic literature, on which he has authored and edited a number of notable works.
[1] His earliest work is concerned with the Altdeutsche Genesis and other German Adam Books, later exploring the same theme in other vernaculars.
In several hundred published works he established the centrality of the "popular" (as opposed to the exegetical) understanding of the "protoplasts" in far wider areas of medieval thought than had hitherto been appreciated.