Nikolai Bachtin
lecturer in classics and linguistics (1894–1950)
Nikolai Mikhailovich Bachtin (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Бахти́н; 1894 – 1950) was a lecturer in classics and linguistics at the University of Birmingham, England, and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's older brother. Bachtin was a friend of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bachtin's papers are held at the University of Birmingham archive.
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