Geoffrey William Hugo Lampe Military Cross

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Exeter College.

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He was Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham from 1953 to 1960. He then moved to the University of Cambridge where he was Ely Professor of Divinity from 1960 to 1970 and Regius Professor of Divinity from 1970 until his retirement in 1979. He obtained first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1935 and in theology a year later.

He was particularly renowned for his dictionary of patristic Greek, id est (that is) of vocabulary attested in Christian authors from Clement of Rome to Theodore of Studium.

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Lampe was educated at Blundells School between 1926 and 1931, from where he won a scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford. Lampe was a chaplain to 34 Armoured Brigade during the second half of World World War II, and won the Military Cross for bravery when rescuing wounded troops when under fire.

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