Michael Winterbottom (classical philologist)

Michael Winterbottom (born September 22, 1934 in Sale , Cheshire ) is a British classical philologist .

biography

After studying classical antiquity, Winterbottom worked from 1959 to 1962 as a lecturer at Christ Church College in Oxford. He then taught Latin and Greek philology in London until 1967. Between 1967 and 1992 he was an Academic Tutor and Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford . From 1990 to 1992 he taught Latin and Greek there, and in 1992 was appointed Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at Corpus Christi College . He held this position until his retirement in 2001.

Winterbottom published various editions of classical texts in the series of " Oxford Classical Texts ". These include the writings " De officiis " by Marcus Tullius Cicero , Quintilian's " institutio oratoria " and the smaller writings of Tacitus , but also lesser-known medieval authors such as Gildas , Abbo of Fleury , Dunstan of Canterbury and William of Malmesbury .

Fonts (selection)

• Marcus Tullius Cicero: De officiis , Oxford / New York: Typogr. Clarendoniano 1994. ISBN 0-19-814673-6 .
• Dunstan of Canterbury: The Early Lives of St. Dunstan , Oxford 2011: Oxford Medieval texts (with Michael Lapidge).
• Gildas: The ruin of Britain and other works , London 1978. (with translation)
• Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria , Oxford 2006: Oxford University Press (together with Tobias Reinhardt).
• Tacitus: opera minora , Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford 1975. (together with RM Ogilvie)
• Abbo of Fleury: Three Lives of English Saints , Toronto 1972: Toronto Medieval Latin Texts.
• (Ed., With Donald Andrew Russell ): Ancient Literary Criticism. The Principal Texts in New Translations. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1972.

Web links

• Literature by Michael Winterbottom in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Michael Winterbottom in the OPAC of the Regesta imperii