Robert Knox
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| Born | 1791 | ||||||||
| Died | 1862 | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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ESL Council 1862-63 Hon. Curator
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Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of France, Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris etc FRSE FRCSE MWS
1845.05.24 From the list of members in arrear of their subscriptions for 1844 the Council determined to withdraw the following Gentlemen: Augustine Aglio Esq., Robert Knox, MD, Hon. R. Murray Dundas, Hamilton Roe, MD, J.W. Holgate, MD, Edwin C. Suttor Esq., H.N. Holme Esq., George Waterhouse Esq.
See 'The origin of the anthropological review' AR vol. 6, no. 23 (oct 1868): ... Robert Knox was, in the year 1855, proposed an ordinary Fellow of the Society, and black-balled! He was, however, elected in 1858 as an Honorary Fellow, to the horror and indignation of the Quakers
1862.06.17 It was resolved that Dr Knox should be appointed Honorary Curator to the Ethnological Society.
Arthur Keith article: '... his meteoric career in Edinburgh had come to an end; in the early days of the ESL he was an Ishmaelite in London, preaching his gospel of race with a rapier tongue ... he was virulent, clever and heterodox, dealing in racial prophecies and hating all accepted forms of religion ...
Notes From Elsewhere
Robert Knox, FRSE FRCSE MWS (4 September 1791 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist. He was the most popular lecturer in anatomy in Edinburgh before his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. This ruined his career, and a later move to London did not improve matters. His later pessimistic view of humanity contrasted sharply with his youthful attachment to the ideas of Étienne Geoffroy.
Publications
External Publications
Races of Man
House Publications
On the collection of human crania and other human bones at present preserved in a church at Hythe in Kent
On the Assyrian marbles
on some ancient forms of civilization
On the crania and other bones preserved in Hythe church
on the influence of climate and hybridity on man