Robert Munro

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

Edinburgh University's Munro Lectures in Archaeology and Anthropology are named in his honour.

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. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867. He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research.

In 1912 Munro began lecturing in anthropology and prehistoric archaeology at Edinburgh University. 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) Prehistoric Problems: being a selection of essays on the evolution of man and other controverted problems in anthropology and archæology (1897) Prehistoric Scotland and its Place in European Civilisation (1899) Archaeology and False Antiquities (1905) The Munro Bequest (1910)

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) Autobiographic Sketch of Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., 21st July, 1835 - 18th July, 1920 (1921)