Robert Shackleton

Robert Shackleton (born November 25, 1919 in Todmorden , † September 9, 1986 in Ravello ) was a British Romance scholar, literary scholar and librarian.

life and work

Shackleton studied at Oxford ( Oriel College ). Then he was a librarian at Brasenose College , where he taught French literature (1946–1966). From 1966 to 1979 he was director of the Bodleian Library . From 1979 until his death he was Jacques Scherer's successor in the Marshal Foch Chair of French Literature at Oxford University and was a Fellow of All Souls College . Robert Darnton was one of his students . Shackleton left an important French Enlightenment library, most of which is housed in the John Rylands Library .

Shackleton was Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE, 1986). In 1966 he was elected to the British Academy and in 1971 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . His grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Naples.

(Ed.) Fontenelle . Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes. Oxford 1955
Montesquieu . A critical biography. Oxford, Univ. Press 1961, 1963, 1970 (French: Grenoble 1977)
The "Encyclopédie" and the clerks . The Zaharoff lecture for 1970. Oxford 1970
Essays on Montesquieu and on the enlightenment . Edited by David Gilson and Martin Smith, Oxford 1988.

Enlightenment . Essays in memory of Robert Shackleton. Edited by Giles Barber and CP Courtney. Oxford 1988
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography sv
Giles Barber: Robert Shackleton, 1919-1986 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 73 , 1987, pp. 657-684 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Literature by and about Robert Shackleton in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

personal data
SURNAME	Shackleton, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Romance studies scholar, literary scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Death murders
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1986
Place of death	Ravello