David Moore Robinson was an American Classical archaeologist credited with the discovery of the ancient city of Olynthus.
Education
Robinson earned his Bachelor of Arts (1898) and Doctor of Philosophy (1904) at the University of Chicago. Among his students (he is credited with training 75 Doctor of Philosophy recipients and 41 Master of Arts recipients) were George Master of Arts
Career
Robinson served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University (1905-1947). 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.
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).
Hanfmann, Allan Chester Johnson, Mylonas, Paul Augustus Clement, Junior., James Walter Graham, Mary Ross Ellingson, and William Andrew McDonald. 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. lieutenant has been shown that he published Ellingson"s master"s thesis and doctoral dissertation in volumes VII and XIV of Excavations at Olynthus without proper cartulary-register
Membership
German Archaeological Institute.