Question: What was the founding name of the university other than the University of Leeds where E. V. Gordon teaches medieval Germanic languages?
Context: The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages). This is a list of Portuguese words that come from Germanic languages.  Many of these words entered the language during the late antiquity, either as words introduced into Vulgar Latin elsewhere, or as words brought along by the Suebi who settled in Gallaecia (Northern Portugal and Galicia) in the 5th century, and also by the Visigoths who annexed the Suebic Kingdom in 585.  Other words were incorporated to Portuguese during the Middle Ages, mostly proceeding from French and Occitan languages, as both cultures had a massive impact in Portuguese during the 12th and 13th centuries.  More recently other words with Germanic origin have been incorporated, either directly from English or other Germanic languages, or indirectly through French. Eric Valentine Gordon (1896–1938) was a philologist, known as an editor of medieval Germanic texts and a teacher of medieval Germanic languages at the University of Leeds and the University of Manchester. The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.  The language group is sometimes referred to as the "Nordic languages", a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Swedish and Norwegian scholars and laypeople. Alaric is a masculine Germanic given name that, broken into its parts means "Ala" "everyone's" and "ric" "ruler".  This has various forms in the several Germanic languages, such as "Alareiks" in the original Gothic and "Alrekr" in Old Norse.  Most modern Germanic languages render it as "Alarich" or "Alarik" but "Alaric" is the form used in modern English, an adaptation of the Latinization ("Alaricus") of the Gothic one—there is also the alternative Latinization "Alarichus" from Greek "Ἀλάριχος" --.  In Italian, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish it is "Alarico". The East Germanic languages are a group of extinct Germanic languages of the Indo-European language family spoken by East Germanic peoples. The West Germanic tribes were Germanic peoples who spoke the branch of Germanic languages known as West Germanic languages. Northwest Germanic is a proposed grouping of the Germanic languages, representing the current consensus among Germanic historical linguists.  It does not challenge the late 19th-century tri-partite division of the Germanic dialects into North Germanic, West Germanic and East Germanic, but proposes additionally that North and West Germanic (i.e. all surviving Germanic languages today) remained as a subgroup after the southward migration of the East Germanic tribes, only splitting into North and West Germanic later.  Whether this subgroup constituted a unified proto-language, or simply represents a group of dialects that remained in contact and close geographical proximity, is a matter of debate.  The date by which such a grouping must have dissolved—in that innovations ceased to be shared—is also contentious, though it seems unlikely to have persisted after 500 AD, by which time the Anglo-Saxons had migrated to England and the Elbe Germanic tribes had settled in Southern Germany. The former Victoria University of Manchester, now the University of Manchester, was founded in 1851 as Owens College.  In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University, gaining an independent university charter in 1904 as the Victoria University of Manchester after the collapse of the federal university. English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global "lingua franca".  Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea.  It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as by Latin and Romance languages, particularly French.
Answer: Owens College