Charles Gabriel Seligman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Gabriel Seligman

British ethnologist

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1873

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1940

Profession: physician, university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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 Bronislaw Malinowski, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes all of whose work overshadowed his own.
He was a proponent of the Hamitic hypothesis, according to which, some civilizations of Africa were thought to have been founded by Caucasoid Hamitic peoples.