Brian Woledge

Brian Woledge, FBA (born 16 August 1904 in London; died 3 June 2002 in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire), a scholar of Old French language and literature, was Fielden Professor of French at University College London from 1939 to 1971.

He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1930, writing a dissertation on the medieval French romance L'âtre périlleux.

Woledge introduced Reading Week and the "conferences" at Missenden Abbey or Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park to integrate new students into the department, and established UCL's own B.A.

Brian Woledge advanced knowledge of medieval French language and literature, and his Bibliographie des romans et nouvelles en prose française antérieurs à 1500 and Répertoire des plus anciens textes en prose française remain standard works.

His last book was his Commentaire sur Yvain, published when he was in his eighties despite problems with his eyesight.