Merle Greene Robertson
Merle Greene Robertson (born August 30, 1913 in Miles City , Montana , † April 22, 2011 in San Francisco ) was an American American scholar and eminent Maya researcher.
Life
Merle Greene Robertson was born in the small town of Miles City, Montana in 1913, but moved her family to Great Falls and later Seattle when she was eight years old . Here she also began her art studies, which she continued in Mexico at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende and finished with a master's degree from the Universidad de Guanajuato .
In 1961 she joined a research project of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology in Tikal ( Guatemala on) where they three years architectural drawings and squeezes anfertigte. During the 1970s she documented the reliefs at Palenque ( Chiapas , Mexico). In Palenque she also played a decisive role in the realization of several international conferences (the so-called Palenque Round Tables or Mesas Redondas de Palenque ), which brought great progress in the deciphering of Mayan writing .
In 1982 Robertson founded the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute (PARI), a non-profit organization that supports research projects on Mesoamerican art, iconography and epigraphy . In 2004 she was awarded the Orden del Pop by the Museo Popol Vuh in Guatemala City for her decades of service to documenting and protecting the cultural heritage of the Maya. In 2006 her autobiography Never in Fear was published .
During her scientific work, she made over 2000 copies, which are an important source of Mayan research today, as the original reliefs have now been partially eroded or destroyed by looters.
Fonts
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The Sculpture of Palenque
- Vol. 1: The Temple of the Inscriptions (1983)
- Vol. 2: The early buildings of the Palace and the wall paintings (1985)
- Vol. 3: The late buildings of the Palace (1985)
- Vol. 4: The Cross Group, the North Group, the Olvidado, and other pieces (1991)
- Never in Fear (2006)
- Editor
- Primera Mesa Redonda de Palenque, Part I (First Palenque Round Table, Part I) (1974)
- Primera Mesa Redonda de Palenque, Part II (First Palenque Round Table, Part II) (1974)
- The art, iconography & dynastic history of Palenque. Proceedings of the Segunda Mesa Redonda de Palenque (1976)
- Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque (Third Palenque Round Table) (1979), with Donnan Call Jeffers
- Third Palenque Round Table, 1978, Part II (1980)
literature
- John Doyle: Digging Deep: Archaeologist Merle Greene Robertson Has Spent Four Decades Uncovering Treasures of Mayan Civilization. In: San Francisco Chronicle. September 4, 2000, p. A-5 ( online version ).
- Tom Gidwitz: Doyenne of Mayanists: Merle Greene Robertson Has Spent a Lifetime Chronicling Mesoamerican Art. In: Archeology. Volume 55/3, 2002, pp. 42-49 ( online version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Merle Greene Robertson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mark Zender, Joel Scidmore: mesoweb.com - In Memoriam: Merle Greene Robertson
- Tulane University , The Latin American Library: Robertson, Merle Greene, Collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robertson, Merle Greene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greene, Merle; Greene Robertson, Merle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American American scholar and Maya researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miles City , Montana |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2011 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |