Michael Reeve
Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts. He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin. Career. Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy  Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties. On 12 February 2014, Reeve was elected in the Accademia Ambrosiana (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies. In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' ("i.e." Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).