Michael Reeve

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Michael Reeve
FBA
Born (1943-01-11) 11 January 1943 (age 81)
Academic background
Education Balliol College, Oxford

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.

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Career

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]

Reeve was the Sandars Reader in Bibliography in 2011-2012 speaking on "Printing the Latin Classics."

In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy). [6]

Selected publications

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References

  1. Hunter and Oakley (2015) xiii-xiv.
  2. "Professor Michael Reeve". classics.cam.ac.uk. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  3. "Professor Michael Reeve FBA". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  4. "Studi greci e latini". Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana (in Italian). Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  5. See also Organi direttivi ed elenco degli Accademici, in Stefano Costa - Federico Gallo (eds.), Miscellanea Graecolatina IV, Milano - Roma 2017 (Ambrosiana Graecolatina, 6), p. 518.
  6. "Reeve, Michael D. | Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei". www.lincei.it (in Italian). Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  7. Stansbury, Mark (October 2014). "Reeve (M.D.) Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission" (PDF). The Classical Review. 64 (2): 479–81. doi:10.1017/S0009840X1400047X. S2CID   164025102.

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Academic offices
Preceded by Kennedy Professor of Latin Cambridge University
1984–2006
Succeeded by