One of the world’s leading specialists on ancient Greek texts, Cambridge professor Colin Austin has died of cancer at the age of 69.
The Australian born professsor was educated in England and France. His mother tongue was French.
He studied at Oxford and came to Trinity Hall as a research fellow in 1965.
He then became a director of studies at Trinity Hall and remained a fellow until he retired in 2008.
A fellow of the British Academy, Austin taught in The Faculty of Classics in Cambridge and was treasurer of The Cambridge Philological Society for 40 years.
Colleagues said he had “a remarkable gift” for reconstructing fragmentary poetic texts preserved on Egyptian papyri.
Austin had been working on a new edition of Greek New Comedy poet Menander.
He is survived by his wife Mishtu, their two children and four grandchildren.
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