Michael Winterbottom (academic)

Michael Winterbottom

FBA

Born|  (1934-09-22) 22 September 1934 (age 89)

Sale

Occupation| Classical scholar
Academic background
Education| Dulwich College
Alma mater| Pembroke College, Oxford, Merton College, Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline| Latin literature
Institutions| University College London (1962–67)
Worcester College, Oxford (1967–92)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1992–2001)

British classical scholar (born 1934)

This article is about the classical scholar. For the filmmaker, see Michael Winterbottom.

Michael Winterbottom, FBA (born 22 September 1934) is an English classical scholar and author, who was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2001.

## Biography[edit]

Michael Winterbottom was educated at Dulwich College, London, and Pembroke College, Oxford. During the Second World War, his family moved from Sale to Torquay, then to Walsall before settling in London.[1]

After National Service in the Royal Signals between 1956 and 1958, he did graduate work at Merton College and then Christ Church, Oxford. After five years as Lecturer in Latin and Greek at University College London (1962–67), he returned to Oxford as Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Worcester College. He moved to Corpus Christi College in 1992 as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, retiring in 2001.[1]

He has worked mainly on Latin prose texts dating from the Roman Republic to the High Middle Ages.[1]

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1978.[1]

## Bibliography[edit]

Complete bibliography is available in Michael Winterbottom, Style and Scholarship: Latin Prose from Gildas to Raffaele Regio (ed. Roberto Gamberini, Firenze, 2020), pp. xxiii–xlvii; see also Michael Winterbottom, Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation (ed. Antonio Stramaglia, Oxford, 2019), pp. xiii–xx.

## Notes and references[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "Professor Michael Winterbottom FBA". Fellows of the British Academy. 2020. Archived from the original on 19 February 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2023.

## External links[edit]

* Publications of Michael Winterbottom in the German National Library catalogue (in German)
* Publications of Michael Winterbottom in the OPAC of the Regesta Imperii, Mainz (in German)

Academic offices

Preceded by

Robin Nisbet

|  Corpus Christi Professor of Latin
University of Oxford
1992 to 2001  | Succeeded by

Philip Hardie

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Norway
* Spain
* France
* BnF data
* Catalonia
* Germany
* Italy
* Israel
* Belgium
* United States
* Latvia
* Czech Republic
* Australia
* Greece
* Netherlands
* Poland
* Vatican

Academics|

* CiNii

People|

* Deutsche Biographie

Other|

* IdRef