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Paul Stanley Nigel Russell-Gebbett (Bentley, Suffolk, 18 December 1926 - Colchester, 1992[1]) was an English linguist. He read Romance languages at Cambridge University. After graduating, he studied Catalan in Barcelona.[2] He lectured at the universities of Nottingham (1949),[3] Essex, Trinidad, Manchester and Belfast, where, from 1973, he was Professor and Head of the Spanish department.[2]
His most celebrated work is the anthology Medieval Catalan Linguistic Texts (Oxford 1965) and he was a founding member of the Anglo-Catalan Society,[4] of which he was treasurer until 1974.
Later in his career he studied Romanian in Romania,[2] where he met Ioana Boroianu, whom he married in 1978, and had two sons. Ioana has translated poems by the Romanian poet Marin Sorescu,[5] collaborating on occasion with Ted Hughes[6] and Seamus Heaney.[7]
