Robert O. Fink

In 1958, Kenyon College named him Euman Dempsey Professor of Classics. While at Kenyon College, he was named a Fulbright Scholar for research in Italy in 1956–1957 and the American Council of Learned Societies awarded him a Research Fellowship in 1963–1964. In 1966, the University at Albany, SUNY appointed him professor of classics. Upon his retirement in 1976 he returned to his former residence in Gambier, Ohio near Kenyon College.

In 1931, Fink was appointed instructor in classics at Yale University and remained there until 1941, when he was appointed assistant professor of classics at Russell Sage College. In 1942, he accepted an appointment at Beloit College, where he was promoted to associate professor. In 1946, he moved to Kenyon College, where he rose to the rank of professor of classics.

Fink was born in Geneva, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1930. After completing a Master of Arts degree at Cornell University in 1931, he went on to Yale University, where he studied under Michael Rostovtzeff, under whose direction he completed his Ph.D. in 1934 with a thesis on "Roman military accounts and records."

Robert Orwill Fink (November 4, 1905 – December 17, 1988) was an American papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.