Robin Nisbet Explained

Robin Nisbet
Birth Date:	1925 5, df=y
Education:	Glasgow University Balliol College, Oxford
Discipline:	Latin Literature
Workplaces:	Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Doctoral Students:	R. J. Tarrant
Main Interests:	Horace

Robert George Murdoch Nisbet, FBA (21 May 1925 – 14 May 2013), known as Robin Nisbet, was a British classicist and academic, specializing in Latin literature. From 1970 to 1992, he was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford.^{[1] [2]}

He was the son of Robert G. Nisbet, who was also a classicist, lecturing at the University of Glasgow for 35 years,^{[3] [4]} and author of a commentary on Cicero's speech De domo sua (1939).

Robin Nisbet was educated at the Glasgow Academy, then as an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow from 1943 to 1947, before going to Balliol College, Oxford, as Snell Exhibitioner to take a further undergraduate degree. After graduating in 1951 he moved to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was appointed a fellow in 1952. He was made a fellow of the British Academy in 1987.

Selected works

• Nisbet, R. G. M. (1961). M. Tulli Ciceronis in L. Calpurnium Pisonem oratio. Edited with text, introduction, and commentary. (Reprinted in paperback by the Clarendon Press 1987)
• Book: Nisbet. R. G. M.. Hubbard. Margaret. Margaret Hubbard. A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book I. 1970. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 978-0198144397. registration.
• Book: Nisbet. R. G. M.. Hubbard. Margaret. Margaret Hubbard. A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 2. 1978. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 978-0198144526.
• Book: Nisbet. R. G. M.. Harrison. S. J.. Collected papers on Latin literature. 1995. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 978-0198149484.
• Book: Nisbet. R. G. M.. Rudd. Niall. A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 3. 2004. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 978-0199263141.

Notes and References

1. News: Professor Robin Nisbet. 22 June 2015. The Times. 22 May 2013.
2. http://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/16%20Nisbet%201808.pdf Harrison, S.J. Robin George Murdoch Nisbet 1925-2013. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII, 365–382.
3. http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH26444&type=P University of Glasgow official website
4. Harrison. Stephen. Robin Nisbet. CUCD Bulletin. 2013. 42. 1–2. 22 June 2015. Council of University Classical Departments.