Charles Gabriel Seligman Scientist

Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS (24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940) 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 highly influential as the teacher of such notable anthropologists as Bronisław Malinowski, E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes all of whose work overshadowed his own.

Personal facts

Charles Gabriel Seligman
Birth dateDecember 24, 1873
Date of deathSeptember 19, 1940
Place of death
Oxford
Education
St Thomas' Hospital

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Scientist

Field of study
Anthropology
History
influenced

Topical connections

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External resources

  1. http://archives.lse.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=SELIGMAN
  2. http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/Default.htm
  3. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/seligman_charles.html