Robert Auty

He attended Rotherham Grammar School before reading modern and medieval languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, under E. K. Bennett; he placed in the first class in both parts of the Tripos,[4] graduating in 1935.

[3] Choosing to focus on German, he then completed doctoral studies at the University of Münster under the supervision of Günther Müller; the PhD was awarded in 1937.

[2] The author of over two dozen articles, his only book was Handbook of Old Church Slavonic, Part II: Texts and Glossary, which was published in 1960.

[3] Auty was an active promoter of Belarusian studies in the UK who also inspired other British academics, such as Arnold McMillin, to engage in this field.

[8] In 1965 he became one of the founders of the Journal of Belarusian Studies writing an introduction about "a little-known East European people and its contribution to civilisation".