Person
James George Frazer
1854 – 1941 · aged 87
Scottish social anthropologist (1854–1941)
- Born
- 1 Jan 1854 · Glasgow
- Died
- 7 May 1941 · Cambridge
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- 1 Jan 1854BornBorn in Glasgow
- 1916AwardHuxley Memorial Medal
- 1920AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
- 1921AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 1921AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 7 May 1941DiedDied in Cambridge
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1854 – 1941).
- 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
Biography
Sir James George Frazer (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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