Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940

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Summary: Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS FRAI was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman and Sidney Ray on the Torres Strait Islands. He returned to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded the School of Anthropology. Haddon was a major influence on the work of the American ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1855-05-24 [2][5]
Birth Place: London [2][5]
Died: 1940-04-20 [2][5]
Death Place: Cambridge [2][5]
Country: Ireland [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: biologist [5]; anthropologist [5]; zoologist [5]; university teacher [5]; ethnologist [5]
Employer: University of Cambridge [5][5][5]; Royal College of Science for Ireland [5]
Educated at: King's College London [5]; Christ's College [5]
Country of Education: United Kingdom [5]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [5]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [5]
Yale LUX: Entity [5]
British Museum person-institution thesaurus: Entry [5]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. National Library of Korea; 5. Wikidata; 6. Library of Congress

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