Lockhart Muirhead

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Lockhart Muirhead , more rarely Morehead (* 1765 ; † 1829 ) was a Scottish scholar and first Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Glasgow . The chair was in 1807 by King George III. was founded to find a curator for the extensive collection of the late London-based Scottish anatomist William Hunter , which forms the basis of the Hunterian Museum .

Life

Muirhead was born in Scotland in 1765 to Patrick, Pastor of the Church of Scotland , and Elizabeth Muirhead. He studied at the University of Glasgow and obtained his MA in 1797. After graduating, Muirhead toured France and Italy just before the French Revolution and learned both languages ​​so well that on his return to Glasgow he taught them at the university and even published a French grammar . He published reviews of French and Italian specialist literature in the Monthly Review and the Edinburgh Review , including one on the Philosophy Zoologique by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck .

He gave up his foray into languages ​​and taught natural history , a combination of geology and zoology . In 1807 he took over the post of university librarian, which he retained during his regius professorship. Other sources assign him the post of librarian from 1795 to 1823.

In the summer of 1807, Muirhead traveled to London to personally oversee the packing and shipping of Hunter's collection. It was his first act as Keeper of the Hunterian Museum . The collection had been there since Hunter's death in 1783, awaiting an adequate resolution.

From 1808 Muirhead was officially listed as a Regius Professor. He held the chair until his death in 1829. The University honored Muirhead with an LL.D.

Lockhart married Anne Campbell. Her son, James Patrick Muirhead , became the most important biographer of James Watt .

bibliography

  • Manual of French grammar. To which is added a small collection from French authors ; Glasgow, Mundell and Son, Edinburgh, 1797
  • Journals of Travels in Parts of the Late Austrian Low Countries, France, the Pays de Vaud, and Tuscany, in 1787 and 1789 , London, 1803

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ unknown: Zoology (Regius Chair). In: University of Glasgow website. April 20, 2008, accessed April 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ unknown: Veterinary, Medical and Life Sciences. Zoology. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b c David N. Livingstone and Charles WJ Withers: Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science . University of Chicago Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-48726-7 , pp. 329-330 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f unknown: Lockhart Muirhead. In: University of Glasgow website. August 15, 2017, accessed April 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c d unknown: Special Collections. Lockhart Muirhead. In: University of Glasgow website. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Michael Moss, Moira Rankin and Lesley Richmond: Who, Where and When: The History & Constitution of the University of Glasgow . University of Glasgow, Glasgow 2001, ISBN 0-85261-734-8 , pp. 68/69 .
  7. ↑ unknown: Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History. Series Four: Sources from Record Offices in the United Kingdom Part 3: The Papers of James Watt (1736-1819) and James Watt, jnr (1769-1848) from the James Patrick Muirhead Collection, at Glasgow University Library. Adam Matthew Digital Ltd., accessed April 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Muirhead, Lockhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish scholar and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1765
DATE OF DEATH 1829