Nikolai Mikhailovich Bachtin (; 1894 – 1950) was a lecturer in classics and linguistics at the University of Birmingham, England, and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's older brother.Michael Holquist, Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 1-2. Bachtin was a friend of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (New York: The Free Press, 1990), p. 347Fania Pascal, Wittgenstein: A Personal Memoir, in Rush Rhees, ed., Recollections of Wittgenstein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 12-49. Bachtin's papers are held at the University of Birmingham archive.
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