Paul S. N. Russell-Gebbett
British linguist (1926–1992)
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Paul Stanley Nigel Russell-Gebbett (Bentley, Suffolk, 18 December 1926 – Colchester, 1992[1]) was an English linguist. He read Romance languages at Cambridge University. After graduating, he studied Catalan in Barcelona.[2] He lectured at the universities of Nottingham (1949),[3] Essex, Trinidad, Manchester and Belfast, where, from 1973, he was Professor and Head of the Spanish department.[2]
Prof. Paul Russell-Gebbett | |
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| Born | 18 December 1926 |
| Died | 1992 (aged 65) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Romance linguistics |
| Institutions | Nottingham, Essex, Trinidad, Manchester, Queen's Belfast |
Main interests | Iberian linguistics, especially Catalan; also Romanian |
His most celebrated work is the anthology Medieval Catalan Linguistic Texts (Oxford 1965) and he was a founding member of the Anglo-Catalan Society,[4] of which he was treasurer until 1974.
Later in his career he studied Romanian in Romania,[2] where he met Ioana Boroianu, whom he married in 1978, and had two sons. Ioana has translated poems by the Romanian poet Marin Sorescu,[5] collaborating on occasion with Ted Hughes[6] and Seamus Heaney.[7]
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)