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Jun 28, 1905 London Died on 26 Nov 1999 (aged 94)
British-American anthropologist
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About Ashley Montagu
- 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.
