Seligman, Brenda Z.
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- Summary
- Brenda Zara Seligman was a British anthropologist. She was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1933 for five years of fieldwork. She married fellow ethnologist Charles Seligman. After he died in 1940, she continued to extend their private museum collections. She rose to be vice-president of the Royal Anthropological Institute and to leave vast collections to leading British museums. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Female [1]VIAF[2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)[3]Bibliothèque nationale de France[4]Wikidata
- Born
- 1883 [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 1883-06-26 [4]Wikidata
- Birth Place
- London [4]Wikidata
- Died
- 1965 [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 1965-01-02 [4]Wikidata
- Death Place
- Kensington [4]Wikidata
- Country
- Great Britain [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- Language
- English [3]Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Occupation
- ethnologist [4]Wikidata
- Profession
- Ethnologin [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [4]Wikidata
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [4]Wikidata
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]Wikidata
- British Museum person-institution thesaurus
- Entry [4]Wikidata
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
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