Métraux, Alfred
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born on | 5 November 1902 at 20:15 (= 8:15 PM ) | ||||
Place | Lausanne, Switzerland, 46n31, 6e38 | ||||
Timezone | MET h1e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Swiss-Argentine anthropologist, ethnologist and human rights leader, who in 1947 was assigned to UNESCO, becoming a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science in 1950.
Alfred Métraux took his own life by an overdose of barbiturates on 12 April 1963, aged 60, in Paris.
Events
Source Notes
Grazia Bordoni's Science database quotes Lescaut.
Categories
- Personal : Death : Suicide
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Ethnologist
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ political (Human rights leader)
- Vocation : Science : Anthropology