David Moore Robinson

David Moore Robinson
Born (1880-09-21)September 21, 1880
Auburn, New York
Died January 2, 1958(1958-01-02) (aged 77)
Oxford, Mississippi
Occupation Classical archaeologist
Years active 1904-1958
Known for Excavations at Olynthus
Spouse(s) Helen Haskell

David Moore Robinson (September 21, 1880, in Auburn, New York – January 2, 1958, in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American Classical archaeologist credited with the discovery of the ancient city of Olynthus.[1][2]

Biography

Robinson earned his A.B. (1898) and Ph.D. (1904) at the University of Chicago. Robinson served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University (1905-1947).[3] After retirement, he moved to the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Many ancient objects from Robinson's collection were donated to the University of Mississippi and now constitute the David M. Robinson Memorial Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities.[4]

In addition to the excavations at Olynthus, he participated in archaeological excavations at ancient Corinth (1902) and Sardis (1910), as well as Pisidian Antioch (1924).

Among his students (he is credited with training 75 Ph.D. recipients and 41 M.A. recipients) were George M.A. Hanfmann, Allan Chester Johnson, George E. Mylonas, Paul Augustus Clement, Jr.,[5] James Walter Graham, Mary Ross Ellingson, and William Andrew McDonald.[6]

Robinson was awarded the Cross of the Royal Order of the Phoenix by King Paul of Greece in 1957.[7]

Controversy

Robinson published his findings at Olynthus in a 14-volume series, Excavations at Olynthus, most of which he wrote himself. However, he has recently been charged with plagiarizing the work of his student Mary Ross Ellingson and at least three other students. It has been shown that he published Ellingson's master's thesis and doctoral dissertation in volumes VII and XIV of Excavations at Olynthus as his own work.[8][9]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Robinson, David Moore." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 963-64.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ University of Chicago (1915). The University Record. University of Chicago Press. pp. 129–.
  4. ↑ http://museum.olemiss.edu/collections/robinson/
  5. ↑ Paul Augustus Clement Jr. (1906-1986) was a member of the Department of Classics at UCLA from July 1, 1949 until 1973. http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb6z09p0jh&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00013&toc.depth=1&toc.id=
  6. ↑ David Moore Robinson (1953). Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson On His Seventieth Birthday. Washington Univ.
  7. ↑ "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DAVID MOORE ROBINSON" http://classics.olemiss.edu/files/2011/01/Robinson_biography.pdf
  8. ↑ Kaiser, Alan. Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal: The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them. New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
  9. ↑ Gaca, Kathy L. "Alan Kaiser, Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal: The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them." (Book review). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Feb. 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Internet Archive: University of Toronto - Robarts Library > Ancient Sinope : a dissertation https://archive.org/details/ancientsinopedis00robiuoft
  11. ↑ Henry Rushton Fairclough (1927). The Classics and Our Twentieth-century Poets. Stanford University Press. pp. 32–. GGKEY:1JYBQXG8WZB.

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