Robert Munro (archaeologist)

Robert Munro FRSE FSA LLD (21 July 1835 – 18 July 1920) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur archaeologist.[1]

This article is about the Scottish archaeologist. For other uses, see Robert Munro (disambiguation).

Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait Gallery
An illustration from Monro's Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe of a bronze celt (a prehistoric, chisel-bladed tool), a bronze and bone awl, and a variety of objects used either as beads or as spindle whorls.

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 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
  • Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs (1882)[4]
  • The Lake Dwellings of Europe: being the Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1888 (1890)[4][5]
  • 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][6]
  • Prehistoric Problems: being a selection of essays on the evolution of man and other controverted problems in anthropology and archæology (1897)[4][7]
  • Prehistoric Scotland and its Place in European Civilisation (1899)[4]
  • Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period (1903)[8][9]
  • Archaeology and False Antiquities (1905)[10]
  • The Munro Bequest (1910)[5]
  • 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)[11]
  • Prehistoric Britain (1913) .
  • 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)[12][13]
  • Autobiographic Sketch of Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., 21st July, 1835 - 18th July, 1920 (1921)[5]

Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu".[14]

References
  1. "MUNRO, Robert". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1275.
  2. "Munro Lectures".
  3. 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.
  4. "Munroe, Robert" . Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. XIX. 1920.
  5. 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.
  6. "Catalogue description". The National Archives. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. "Archaeology and False Antiquities". Internet Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  11. "Review of Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe by Robert Munro". The Athenaeum (4432): 419. 12 October 1912.
  12. Julian Walker (28 December 2017). Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-1-350-00193-0.
  13. 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.
  14. Wikisource logo Works by or about Robert Munro at Wikisource (As of July 2017, some of his works are in a Wikisource transcription project, available for reading, transcribing and editing.)
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