Robert Munro (archaeologist)

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.

Dr Robert Munro FRSE FSA LLD (1835-1920) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur archaeologist.[1]

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.[2] He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867.[2] He worked as a General Practitioner in Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research.[3] He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research.[3]

In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2] His proposers were Rev John Duns, Sir Arthur Mitchell, Alexander Buchan and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.[2] He served as Vice President of the Society 1903 to 1908.[2]

In 1912 Munro began lecturing in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University.[2]

He died on 18 July 1920.[2]

Family

In 1875 he married Anna Taylor (d.1907).[2]

Publications

  • Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs (1882)[3]
  • The Lake Dwellings of Europe: being the Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1888 (1890)[3][4]
  • 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)[3][5]
  • Prehistoric Problems: being a selection of essays on the evolution of man and other controverted problems in anthropology and archæology (1897)[3][6]
  • Prehistoric Scotland and its Place in European Civilisation (1899)[3]
  • Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period (1903)[7][8]
  • Archaeology and False Antiquities (1905)[9]
  • The Munro Bequest (1910)[4]
  • 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)
  • Prehistoric Britain (1913)[10]
  • 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)[11][12]
  • Autobiographic Sketch of Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., 21st July, 1835 - 18th July, 1920 (1921)[4]

Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu".[13]

References

  1. ↑ "MUNRO, Robert". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1275.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Munro, Robert". The Encyclopedia Americana. 1906. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
  4. 1 2 3 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.
  5. ↑ "Catalogue description". The National Archives. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 25 (1): 92–128. 1906. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  8. ↑ Munro, Robert (1912). Palaeolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Archaeology and False Antiquities". Internet Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "Prehistoric Britain". Internet Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  11. ↑ Julian Walker (2017-12-28). Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 161–. ISBN 978-1-350-00193-0.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ Works written 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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