Alan Bliss facts for kids

Alan Bliss (1921–1985) was a smart British expert who studied languages. He was known as a philologist, which means he deeply studied how languages work, where they come from, and how they change over time.

Alan Bliss spent a lot of his early career looking at Old English and Middle English. These are the older forms of the English language that people spoke a long, long time ago. He also studied the history of the English language itself and medieval French, especially a type called Anglo-Norman. Later in his career, he focused on Hiberno-English, which is the English spoken in Ireland.

Alan was born in London. He went to Finchley Catholic Grammar School, then studied at King's College London, and later at Balliol College, Oxford.

His teaching career started at Oxford. In 1953, he became a professor of English at the Royal University of Malta. After that, he taught as a professor at the University of Istanbul in Turkey. In 1961, he moved to University College Dublin in Ireland. He stayed there, teaching about Old and Middle English, until he retired.