Godfrid Storms (4 May 1911 – 20 October 2003)[1] was a Dutch professor of Old and Middle English Literature at the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
[2] He published his seminal dissertation on Anglo-Saxon charms in 1948, superseding a work that had stood as the authority for forty years,[3] before obtaining his professorship there in 1956.
[1] He was educated at Radboud University Nijmegen where he had Aurelius Pompen as his doctoral adviser, and on 4 June 1948 successfully defended his dissertation.
[2][6] Other articles also took the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf as a subject,[7][8][9] and another the Sutton Hoo ship-burial discovered in Suffolk in 1939.
[3] "All students of the Anglo-Saxon charms," wrote Magoun Jr., "will be grateful to Dr Storms for his edition, in all respects an advance on Grendon's once important study.