What was the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1925 Oxford professorship in Anglo-Saxon?

J.R.R. Tolkien became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford in 1925.

The professorship was based at Pembroke College, Oxford, where Tolkien taught Old English, Old Norse, and related subjects. His scholarship in early Germanic languages and literature strongly influenced his fiction, including the sound, structure, and mythology of his invented languages and peoples.

Tolkien later held the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. These two Oxford posts are frequently confused because both formed major parts of his academic career. The Rawlinson and Bosworth chair was named for its benefactors and specifically concerned Anglo-Saxon studies, the field now commonly described as Old English studies. Tolkien’s 1936 lecture “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” became one of the most influential works associated with that scholarship.