Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Born	December 24, 1873 London
Died	September 19, 1940
Nationality	British
Fields	ethnology
Institutions	Cambridge University of London
Alma mater	St. Thomas' Hospital

Charles Gabriel Seligman (December 24, 1873 – September 19, 1940) was a British ethnologist. Born in London, Seligman studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital.

After several years as a physician and pathologist, Seligman volunteered his services to the 1898 Cambridge University expedition to the Torres Strait.^[1] Later, he joined expeditions to New Guinea (1904), Ceylon (1906-1908), and Sudan (1909-1912, again in 1921-1922). In 1905 he married Brenda Zara Salaman, who accompanied him on many of his expeditions and who he credited in his publications.

He served as chair of Ethnology at the University of London from 1913 to 1934.

[edit] Selected works

• Melanesians of British New Guinea (1910)
• The Veddas (1911)
• Races of Africa (1930)
• The Pagan Tribes of Nilotic Sudan (1932)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Seligman biography at Minnesota Sate University EMuseum
• Catalogue of the Seligman papers at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics.