Robert Munro (archaeologist)
Scottish physician and noted amateur 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]
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
- 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]
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- 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]
