Robert Shackleton

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

Life and work

Shackleton was educated at Oxford ( Oriel College). Then he was librarian at Brasenose College and taught French literature ( 1946-1966 ). From 1966 to 1979 he was Director of the Bodleian Library. From 1979 until his death he occupied as the successor to Jacques Scherer Marshal Foch the Chair of French Literature at Oxford University and was a Fellow of All Souls College. Among his pupils was Robert Darnton.

Shackleton left behind a significant library of the French Enlightenment, the predominantly located in the John Rylands Library.

Shackleton was Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE, 1986). His grave is in the Protestant cemetery of Naples.

Works

  • (Ed.) Fontenelle, Questions and Answers sur la pluralité of the moon. Digression sur les Anciens et les Modern, Oxford 1955
  • Montesquieu. A critical biography of Oxford in 1961, 1963, 1970 ( French: Grenoble 1977)
  • The " Encyclopédie " and the clerks. The Zaharoff Lecture for 1970, Oxford 1970
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