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Professor William Ryan FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2000
Year of birth
1937
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Modern languages
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

Last post

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, School of Advanced Study, The Warburg Institute, University of London

Past appointments

The Warburg Institute, University of London Academic Librarian

1976 - 2002

School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature

1967 - 1976

Publications

The bathhouse at midnight. A historical survey of magic and divination in Russia (1999)

The Penguin Russian Dictionary (1995)

Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185 Hakluyt Society, 2nd Series (1988)

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Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

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