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 Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literature ...

. From 1970 to 1992, he was

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at the

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.Harrison, S.J. ''Robin George Murdoch Nisbet 1925-2013''. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIII, 365–382.
/ref> He was the son of Robert G. Nisbet, who was also a classicist, lecturing at the University of Glasgow for 35 years,University of Glasgow official website
/ref> and author of a commentary on

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

's speech ''De domo sua'' (1939). Robin Nisbet was educated at

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, then as an undergraduate at the

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from 1943 to 1947, before going to

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, as Snell Exhibitioner to take a further undergraduate degree. After graduating in 1951 he moved to

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, where he was appointed a fellow in 1952. He was made a fellow of the

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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 ) * * * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nisbet, Robin 1925 births 2013 deaths British classical scholars Scholars of Latin literature Alumni of the University of Glasgow Corpus Christi Professors of Latin Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy People educated at the Glasgow Academy