Paul Stanley Nigel Russell-Gebbett (

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, Suffolk, 18 December 1926 - Colchester, 1992) was an English linguist. He read

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Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. After graduating, he studied

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in Barcelona.Obituary by Geoffrey Connell in ''Bulletin of Hispanic Studies''
(Liverpool) (vol. 70,3, July 1993, p. 353). Retrieved 13 February 2018. He lectured at the universities of

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(1949),

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, Trinidad,

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and

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, where, from 1973, he was Professor and Head of the Spanish department. His most celebrated work is the anthology ''Medieval Catalan Linguistic Texts'' (Oxford 1965) and he was a founding member of the Anglo-Catalan Society, of which he was treasurer until 1974. Later in his career he studied

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in Romania, where he met Ioana Boroianu, whom he married in 1978, and had two sons. Ioana has translated poems by the Romanian poet Marin Sorescu, collaborating on occasion with

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and

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

.A Bright, Unequivocal Eye: ''Fountains in the Sea''.
Retrieved 18 February 2018.

Publications

* ''Medieval Catalan Linguistic Texts'' (Oxford 1965) * ''La expresión de las condiciones de realización imposible en el Catalán medieval'' in ''Actes du XIIIe Congrès International de linguistique et philologie romanes'' (1976) * '' Mossen Pere Pujol's Documents en vulgar dels segles XI, XII & XIII...(Barcelona, 1913): a partial retranscription and commentary'' in ''Studies in medieval literature and languages; in memory of Frederick Whitehead'' (Manchester, University Press, 1973) * ''Medieval Catalan literature'' a ''Spain. A Companion to Spanish Studies'' (1973)

Bibliography

Obituary by Geoffrey Connell in ''Bulletin of Hispanic Studies''
(Liverpool) (vol. 70,3, July 1993, p. 353)

References and notes

Hispanists Academics of the University of Nottingham Romance philologists People from Babergh District 1926 births 1992 deaths {{UK-academic-bio-stub