Robert Munro (archaeologist)
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Robert Munro FRSE FSA LLD (21 July 1835 – 18 July 1920) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur archaeologist.[1]
Edinburgh University's Munro Lectures in Archaeology and Anthropology are named in his honour.[2]
Leben
[edit]He was born on 21 July 1835 at Assynt in Rossshire, and educated at Kiltearn Free Church School, and at the Royal Academy in Tain.[3] He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867.[3] He worked as a General Practitioner in Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research.[4] He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research.[4]
In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[3] His proposers were Rev John Duns, Sir Arthur Mitchell, Alexander Buchan and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.[3] He served as Vice President of the Society 1903 to 1908.[3] In 1894 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[5][6]
In 1912 Munro began lecturing in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University.[3]
He died on 18 July 1920.[3]
Family
[edit]In 1875 he married Anna Taylor (d.1907).[3]
Publications
[edit]- Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs (1882)[4]
- The Lake Dwellings of Europe: being the Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1888 (1890)[4][7]
- Rambles and Studies in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, with an account of the Proceedings of the Congress of Archaeologists and Anthropologists held at Sarajevo, August 1894 (1895)[4][8]
- Prehistoric Problems: being a selection of essays on the evolution of man and other controverted problems in anthropology and archæology (1897)[4][9]
- Prehistoric Scotland and its Place in European Civilisation (1899)[4]
- Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period (1903)[10][11]
- Archaeology and False Antiquities (1905)[12]
- The Munro Bequest (1910)[7]
- Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe: Being the Munro Lectures in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archæology in Connection with the University of Edinburgh, Delivered During February and March 1912 (1912)[13]
- .
- From Darwinism to Kaiserism: being a review of the origin, effects and collapse of Germany's attempt at world-dominion by methods of barbarism (1919)[14][15]
- Autobiographic Sketch of Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., 21st July, 1835 - 18th July, 1920 (1921)[7]
Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu".[16]
References
[edit]- ^ "MUNRO, Robert". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1275.
- ^ "Munro Lectures".
- ^ a b c d e f g h Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ a b c d e f g Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. XIX. 1920. .
- ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ a b c Magdalena S. Midgley; Jeff Sanders (2012). Lake Dwellings After Robert Munro: Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar : the Lake Dwellings of Europe, 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh. Sidestone Press. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-90-8890-092-1.
- ^ "Catalogue description". The National Archives. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ F, W (1897). "Reviewed Work: Prehistoric Problems: Being a Selection of Essays on the Evolution of Man and Other Controverted Problems in Anthropology and Archæology by Robert Munro". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 7 (2): 195–197. JSTOR 25508408.
- ^ Munro, Robert (1906). "Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 25 (1): 92–128. doi:10.1017/S0370164600008361. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Munro, Robert (1912). "Palaeolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe". Nature. 91 (2276): 368. Bibcode:1913Natur..91..368.. doi:10.1038/091368a0. S2CID 38543070. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Archaeology and False Antiquities". Internet Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Review of Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe by Robert Munro". The Athenaeum (4432): 419. 12 October 1912.
- ^ Julian Walker (28 December 2017). Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-1-350-00193-0.
- ^ Munro, Robert (1919). "From Darwinism to Kaiserism: being a review of the origin, effects and collapse of Germany's attempt at world-dominion by methods of barbarism". Google Books. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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Works by or about Robert Munro at Wikisource (As of July 2017[update], some of his works are in a Wikisource transcription project, available for reading, transcribing and editing.)
External links
[edit]Works by or about Robert Munro at Wikisource
- Works by Robert Munro at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Robert Munro at Archive.org