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Notable members of Edinburgh University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: Lord Abercromby – author of distinguished research on Bronze Age pottery; Abercromby Professors of Archaeology. Vere Gordon Childe – first holder of the Abercromby Chair [3] Stuart Piggott – second holder of the Abercromby Chair
After the war he went to Oxford to study the work of William Stukeley, but in 1946 was offered the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology at Edinburgh University (now part of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology), in succession to Gordon Childe. Piggott succeeded in making Edinburgh an archaeology department of international standing.
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is a Welsh professor of ancient history, with a focus on ancient Iran, in particular the Achaemenid (550–330 BC) period. Before this, he specialized in the study of ancient Greece. Since 2016, he holds the Chair of Ancient History at Cardiff University.
Pages in category "People associated with the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Cairns held academic positions at the University of St Andrews, Georg-August Universität, University of Otago, University of Leeds, and the University of Glasgow before he took up the Chair of Classics at Edinburgh in 2004, serving as the Head of Classics from 2004 to 2005 and the Head of School from 2005 to 2008. [1]
Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History & Antiquities (1882) Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography (1901) Abercromby Chair of Archaeology (1927) Edward Clark Professor of Child Life and Health (1931) [1] Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography (1931) Grant Chair of Dermatology (1946) - First such chair in Great Britain
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]
The ancient universities of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthighean ann an Alba) [1] are medieval and renaissance universities that continue to exist in the present day. . Together, the four universities are the oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world after the universities of Oxford and C