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词条 Robert Macnish
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Career and further studies

  3. Later works

  4. Published works

  5. References

Robert Macnish (15 February 1802 – 16 January 1837) was a Scottish surgeon physician, philosopher and writer.

Early life and education

Robert Macnish was born at Henderson’s Court, Jamaica Street, Glasgow. His father and grandfather were doctors and after private education in Glasgow and at the long-established Old Grammar School of Hamilton (renamed the Hamilton Academy in 1848), Robert Macnish undertook his medical studies at the University of Glasgow obtaining a C.M. degree in 1820 and an M.D. in 1825. In 1827 he became a Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (now known as the Royal College).[1][2][3]

Career and further studies

Macnish’s first professional appointment was as an assistant to a doctor (Henderson) in Caithness, north Scotland. It was during his eighteen months there that he began his philosophical studies and composed his first literary works, including The Tale of Eivor, a Scandinavian Legend, and the Harp of Salem, published in the Inverness Journal. Other works, in prose and verse, were published in the Literary Melange and the Emmet periodicals and in 1822 he submitted to the Edinburgh Magazine the short stories Macvurich the Murderer and The Dream Confirmed, both based on real incidents he learned of during his time in Caithness.

Returning to Glasgow, Macnish then journeyed to Paris where for a year he continued his medical and literary studies and tried to regain his health, damaged during his time in the north of Scotland. From Paris he returned to Glasgow as an assistant to his doctor father and to complete his medical studies, gaining his M.D. from Glasgow University in 1825. In that same year he became a Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, giving as his inaugural thesis an essay on The Anatomy of Drunkenness, which he later published in 1827.[4] This was to be expanded until a fifth edition, published in 1834.[1][2]

Later works

It was from 1825 that Robert Macnish’s association with Blackwood's Magazine began with the publication, as a leading article, of his story The Metempsychosis, followed by publication of his Man with the Nose, and the Barber of Gottingen. 1826 brought publication of his Adventures of Colonel O’Shaughnessy and Who can it be?, and for Macnish the epithet, 'Modern Pythagorean'. His other works included Execution at Paris, Night near Monte Video, A Vision of Robert Bruce, The Philosophy of Sleep, and his Book of Aphorisms, published in 1833. His Introduction to Phrenology followed in 1835.

Macnish’s works were to be translated into French and German, and re-published in the United States. In 1835 he was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D. by Hamilton College, United States.

Contracting influenza that developed into typhus fever, Robert Macnish died at Glasgow and was interred in the cemetery of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Chapel, Glasgow. His portrait by Daniel Maclise, and published by James Fraser as a lithograph in 1835, is held in the National Gallery, London.[2][5]

Published works

Among the published works by Robert Macnish (or as co-author,) published in his lifetime or re-published after his death in 1837 were:[6][7][8][9]

  • The Philosophy of Sleep (Published in five editions from 1827–1834)
  • The Constitution Of Man by George Combe, John Foster and Robert Macnish (Original publisher S. Andrus & Son, 1835, republished 10 August 2011)
  • [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100780430 The Anatomy of Drunkenness] (Re-published 1836)
  • An Introduction to Phrenology in the Form of Question and Answer (Published 1836)
  • An introduction to phrenology (Published 1837)
  • [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008618337 The Modern Pythagorean: a series of tales, essays, and sketches], Volume 2 (Robert Macnish and David Macbeth Moir. Publisher W. Blackwood and Sons, 1838)
  • [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007586212 Tales, essays, and sketches] (Published 1844)
  • The Book of Aphorisms (Originally published 1833, [https://archive.org/details/bookofaphorisms00macn re-published 1859])
  • The Confessions of an Unexecuted Femicide
  • The Angel and the Spirit

References

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1. ^Significant Scots:published obituary 1837. Robert Macnish Retrieved 28 January 2011
2. ^[https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/17718 Oxford University Press Dictionary of National Biography. Paper: Michael Bevan, MacNish, Robert (1802–1837), first published 2004, 1293 words, with portrait illustration]
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Duncan|first1=Alexander|title=Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850|date=1896|publisher=Maclehose|location=Glasgow|page=282|url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsoffacul00duncuoft|accessdate=16 November 2015}}
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Macnish|first1=Robert|title=The modern Pythagorean : a series of tales, essays, and sketches, vol. 1|date=1838|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons|location=Edinburgh|page=36}}
5. ^National Gallery, London. Portrait of Robert Macnish by Daniel Maclise Retrieved 28 January 2011
6. ^Yale University Library catalogue, published works by Robert Macnish 1802–1837 Retrieved 7 September 2011
7. ^[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_modern_Pythagorean.html?id=nhtVWh2n1PwC Google Books, listing, The Modern Pythagorean by Robert Macnish and David Macbeth Moir, Publisher W. Blackwood and Sons, 1838] Retrieved 7 September 2011
8. ^[https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Robert%20Macnish Amazon book listing, Robert Macnish] Retrieved 7 September 2011
9. ^American Cyclopaedia: Robert Macnish Retrieved 28 January 2011
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