Donald Struan Robertson

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Donald Struan Robertson, FBA (London, 28 June 1885 – 5 October 1961, Cambridge), was a classical scholar, particularly noted for his work on Apuleius, and for 22 years the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge.

Life

After education at Westminster School Robertson won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and was placed in the first class of both parts of the Classical Tripos, graduating in 1908. Having won several prizes as an undergraduate, he competed for, and in 1909 won, a Trinity fellowship with a dissertation on the manuscript tradition of Apuleius's Apologia which he illustrated with stories from Apuleius's Metamorphoses.[1]

The whole of Robertson's academic life, from undergraduate to retirement, was spent at Trinity. Interrupted only by war service, where he was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps rising to the rank of major, Robertson lectured and supervised at Trinity until in 1928 he succeeded A. C. Pearson as the Regius Professor of Greek.,[1] holding the chair until 1950.

Robertson published his first book, A Handbook of Greek and Roman Architecture, in 1929; however, the work for which he is best remembered is his text of the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, published in the Budé series in three volumes between 1940–45.[1]

Robertson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1940;[2] he received honorary degrees from the universities of Durham, Glasgow, and Athens.[1]

By his first wife, who was killed during the Second World War, Robertson was the father of Charles Martin Robertson, an eminent scholar of Greek vase painting.[1]

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Alfred Chilton Pearson
Regius Professor of Greek Cambridge University
1928 - 1950
Succeeded by
Denys Page
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