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unusual facts about English Philology



Natalka Karpa

Karpa finished her school with a gold medal and has two higher education diplomas: Lviv Medical University (former medical campus of Lviv University) and the English Philology of Lviv Polytechnic.


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Beğlan Birand Toğrol

She has then enrolled to the English Philology Department of Istanbul University where she got certificates both in English Literature and in Psychology (1945–1949).

Jakob Schipper

He studied modern languages in Bonn, Paris, Rome, and Oxford, collaborated on the revision of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and was professor of English philology at Königsberg from 1872 until 1877, when he received a like position in Vienna.

Jüri Talvet

Talvet received his MA degree in English philology from the University of Tartu in 1972 and defended his PhD degree in Western European literature at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University in 1981.

Richard Chenevix Trench

Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary.

The Irish Festival of Oulu

Poetry events are included as optional courses in English Philology by the University of Oulu.