David Moore Robinson

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David Moore Robinson (born September 21, 1880, in Auburn, New York; died January 2, 1958, in Oxford, Mississippi) was a prominent American classical archaeologist credited with the discovery of the city of Olynthus.

Robinson earned his A.B. (1898) and Ph.D. (1904) at the University of Chicago. He served on the faculty of many institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, Bryn Mawr College, and the University of Mississippi.

Among his students (he is credited with training 75 Ph.D. recipients and 41 M.A. recipients) were George M.A. Hanfmann, Allan Chester Johnson, George E. Mylonas, Paul A. Clement, Jr., James Walter Graham, and William A. McDonald.

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• The David M. Robinson collection[1]
• [Necrology] George E. Mylonas in College Art Journal 18.1 (Autumn, 1958), p. 76.