George Hardin Brown was an American scholar of medieval studies.
The focus of his scholarship includes Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon literature, especially the work of the Venerable Bede.
Brown had a long academic career at many renowned institutions and has studied under other notable scholars in his field.
Brown earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971,[2] from a department that included scholars of medieval and oral literature such as Francis Peabody Magoun, Albert Lord, and Walter Ong.
In 1994 he gave the Toller Lecture,[3] which is considered a foundational work in early English textual studies.