| Intro | British classical scholar |
| A.K.A. | Robin George Murdoch Nisbet, Robin Nisbet |
| Was |
Architect Philologist |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type |
Engineering Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 21 May 1925, Glasgow, Glasgow City Council, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Death |
14 May 2013 (aged 88 years) |
| Star sign | Gemini |
Robert George Murdoch ‘Robin’ Nisbet, FBA (21 May 1925 – 14 May 2013), known as R. G. M. Nisbet, was a British classicist and academic, specialising in Latin literature. From 1970 to 1992, he was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. He was the son of Robert G. Nisbet, who was also a classicist, lecturing at the University of Glasgow for 35 years, and author of a commentary on Cicero’s speech De domo sua (1939).
Robin Nisbet was educated at the Glasgow Academy, then as an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow from 1943-47, before moving on a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford to take a second undergraduate degree. In 1951 he moved to Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he was appointed a fellow in 1952. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
Selected works
- Nisbet, R. G. M. (1961). M. Tulli Ciceronis in L. Calpurnium Pisonem oratio. Edited with text, introduction, and commentary. (Reprinted in paperback by the Clarendon Press 1987 ISBN 978-0198721314)
- Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, Margaret (1970). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198144397.
- Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, Margaret (1978). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198144526.
- Nisbet, R. G. M. (1995). Harrison, S. J., ed. Collected papers on Latin literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198149484.
- Nisbet, R. G. M.; Rudd, Niall (2004). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0199263141.