Ashley Montagu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ashley Montagu

British-American anthropologist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1905

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1999

Profession: university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (1905 – 1999) — born Israel Ehrenberg — was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO statement "The Race Question".
As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu".
After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu".
Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Rutgers, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and New York University.
Forced out of his Rutgers position after the McCarthy hearings, he repositioned himself as a public intellectual in the 1950s and '60s, appearing regularly on television shows and writing for magazines and newspapers.
He authored over 60 books throughout this lifetime.
In 1995, the American Humanist Association named him the Humanist of the Year.