Paul S. N. Russell-Gebbett

Paul Stanley Nigel Russell-Gebbett (Bentley, Suffolk, December 18, 1926 - Colchester, 1992) was an English philologist. He read Romance languages ​​at Cambridge University. After graduating, he studied Catalan in Barcelona and then Romanian in Romania, where he met his wife. He lectured at the universities of Nottingham (1949), Essex, Trinidad, Manchester and Belfast, where, since 1973, he was full professor and head of the Spanish department. His most celebrated work is the anthology Medieval Catalan Linguistic Texts (Oxford 1964). He also specialized in Romanian. He was a founding member of the Anglo-Catalan Society, of which he was treasurer until 1974.

Publications

• Medieval Catalan Linguistic Texts (Oxford 1964)
• La expresión de las condiciones de realización imposible en el Catalán medieval in Actes du XIIIe Congrès International de linguistique et philologie romanes (1976)
• Mossen Pere Pujol's Documents en vulgar dels segles XI, XII & XIII...(Barcelona, 1913): a partial retranscription and commentary in Studies in medieval literature and languages; in memory of Frederick Whitehead (Manchester, University Press, 1973)
• Medieval Catalan literature a Spain. A Companion to Spanish Studies (1973)

Bibliography

• Obituary by Geoffrey Connell in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool) (vol. 70,3, July 1993, p. 353)