Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel), 1873-1940
Contributed to
ax05The Veddas
The VeddasBook 1911
fj23Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
Pagan tribes of the Nilotic Sudanbook chapter 1932
fj21The Nuba
The Nubabook chapter 1965
fo07The Azande
The Azandebook chapter 1932
ol06The northern Massim
The northern Massimbook chapter 1910
- Summary
- Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician and ethnologist. His main ethnographic work described the culture of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk people of the Sudan. He was a professor at London School of Economics and was influential to prominent anthropologists, such as Bronisław Malinowski, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Meyer Fortes. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1873-12-24 [2][5]
- Birth Place
- London [5]
- Died
- 1940-09-19 [2][5]
- Death Place
- Oxford [5]
- Country
- Great Britain [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [5]
- university teacher [5]
- physician [5]
- pathologist [5]
- collector [5]
- Profession
- Ethnologe [2]
- Employer
- University of London [5]
- Educated at
- St Thomas' Hospital [5]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [5]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. National Library of Korea
- 5. Wikidata
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