Michael Reeve | |
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Born | 11 January 1943 |
Academic background | |
Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Textual criticism |
Institutions |
Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and professor emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts. [1] He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.
Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. [2] In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties. [3] On 12 February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana ( Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies. [4] [5] In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy). [6]
Michael Reeve | |
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Born | 11 January 1943 |
Academic background | |
Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Textual criticism |
Institutions |
Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and professor emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts. [1] He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.
Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. [2] In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties. [3] On 12 February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana ( Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies. [4] [5] In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy). [6]