Robert Munro (archaeologist) explained

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]

Life

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

In 1875 he married Anna Taylor (d.1907).[3]

Publications

Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu".[16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. MUNRO, Robert. Who's Who. 1907. 59. 1275.
  2. Web site: Munro Lectures.
  3. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X.
  4. Munroe, Robert . XIX . 1 .
  5. Book: Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay. A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh. 1933. en.
  6. Book: Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  7. Book: Magdalena S. Midgley. Magdalena Midgley. Jeff Sanders. Lake Dwellings After Robert Munro: Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar : the Lake Dwellings of Europe, 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh. 2012. Sidestone Press. 978-90-8890-092-1. 16–.
  8. Web site: Catalogue description. The National Archives. 1 January 2018.
  9. F. W. 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. 1897. 7. 2. 195–197. 25508408.
  10. Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1906. 25. 1. 92–128. 10.1017/S0370164600008361. 1 January 2018. Munro. Robert. subscription.
  11. Munro. Robert. Palaeolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe. Nature. 1912. 91. 2276. 368. 10.1038/091368a0. 1913Natur..91..368.. 38543070. 1 January 2018. subscription.
  12. Web site: Archaeology and False Antiquities. Internet Archive. 1 January 2018.
  13. Review of Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe by Robert Munro. The Athenaeum . 4432. 12 October 1912. 419.
  14. Book: Julian Walker. Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary. 2017-12-28. Bloomsbury Academic. 978-1-350-00193-0. 161–.
  15. Web site: 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. 1 January 2018. Munro. Robert. 1919.
  16. (some of his works are in a Wikisource transcription project, available for reading, transcribing and editing.)

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