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Donald Andrew Frank Moore Russell, (13 October 1920 – 9 February 2020) was a British classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classical Literature at the University of Oxford between 1985 and 1988, and a fellow and tutor of classics at St John's College, Oxford, from 1948 to 1988: he was an emeritus professor and emeritus fellow. Russell died in February 2020 at the age of 99.




Early life and education


Russell was born on 13 October 1920 in Wandsworth, London, England. His parents were Samuel Charles Russell (1878–1979) and Laura Moore (1876–1966), both school teachers, who had married in 1912. His father saw service during the First World War in the Royal Flying Corps.
Russell was educated at King's College School, a private school in Wimbledon, London. In December 1938, he was awarded a scholarship to study classics at Balliol College, Oxford. His college tutors were W. S. Watt and Roger Mynors. He took Honour Moderations in June 1940, and then studied ancient history and philosophy as part of Greats from 1940 to 1941. His studies were interrupted when he was called-up for military service.




Wartime service


Russell served in the British Army during the Second World War: first in the Royal Corps of Signals from 1941 to 1943, then in the Intelligence Corps from 1943 to 1945. In the Signals, he trained as a wireless operator. In 1943, he transferred to the Intelligence Corps and was sent on a crash course in Japanese at the secret Bedford Japanese School run by Captain Oswald Tuck RN. He was on the 3rd Bedford course (January to April 1943) and achieved the best results in the final examination. He was subsequently posted to the Japanese Military Attaché Section at Bletchley Park and became Senior Translator there. Having achieved the rank of lance corporal in the other ranks, he was granted an immediate emergency commission in the Intelligence Corps on 3 May 1944 in the rank of second lieutenant.




Academic career


From 1948 to 1988, he was a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, of which he was subsequently an emeritus fellow. As of October 2013, Russell was just the third fellow in the history of St John's to have reached the 65 year anniversary milestone of his election to the fellowship. From 1952 to 1978, he was a university lecturer in classical literature at the University of Oxford. He was Reader in Classical Literature from 1978 to 1985, and Professor of Classical Literature from 1985 to 1988.
In 1981, he delivered the J H Gray Lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina in 1985 and from 1989 to 1991, a visiting professor at Stanford University.




Published works



Russell, Donald (1964). Longinus On the Sublime, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Russell, Donald (1972). Plutarch, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald; and M Winterbottom (1972). Ancient Literary Criticism, Oxford University Press
Russell, Donald (1981). Criticism in Antiquity, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald; and N G Wilson (1981). Menander Rhetor, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald (1983). Greek Declamation, Cambridge University Press
Russell, Donald (1990). Anthology of Latin Prose, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Russell, Donald (1991). Anthology of Greek Prose, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Russell, Donald (1992). Dio Chrysostom, Orations 7, 12, 36, Cambridge University Press
Russell, Donald (1993). Plutarch: Selected Essays and Dialogues, Oxford University Press
Russell, Donald (1996). Libanius: Imaginary Speeches, London: Duckworth
Russell, Donald (2001). Quintilian: The orator’s education (Loeb Translation), Harvard University Press
Russell, Donald; and D Konstan (2005). Heraclitus: Homeric problems, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature
Russell, Donald; and R Hunter (2011). Plutarch: How to Study Poetry, Cambridge University Press
Russell, Donald; Dillon, J and Gertz, S. (forthcoming) 'Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)', Bristol Classical Press. 978-1780932095




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