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Emil Torday

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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Emil
| name = Torday
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Torday,_Emil.jpg
| birth_date = 1875
| death_date = 1931
| address = Congo Free State, 32 Rodenhurst Road, Clapham, SW<br />Dima, Kasai, Congo Free State [1905]<br />40 Lansdowne Crescent, W. [1909]<br />Apsley House, South Parade, Llandudno, N. Wales [1919]<br />145 Cromwell Road, SW7 [1921]<br />17 The Grove, Boltons, SW10 [1923]
| occupation = anthropologist
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1904.12.06
1905.01.01
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow<br />Local Correspondent [1905, 1907]
| left = 1931 deceased
| clubs =
| societies = Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
RAI Council 1911 Member<br />RAI Council 1912-13 Member<br />RAI Council 1913 Member<br />RAI Council 1915 Member<br />RAI Council 1916 Member<br />RAI Council 1917 Member<br />RAI Council 1921 Member<br />RAI Council 1923 Member<br />RAI Council 1924 Member<br />RAI Council 1925 Member<br />RAI Council 1927 Member<br />RAI Council 1928 Member<br />RAI Council 1929 Member
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by Henry Balfour; seconded by T.A. Joyce, 1904.11.22<br />1928 Rivers Memorial Medal<br /><br />Obit. in Man Feb. 1932<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Emil Torday (22 June 1875 in Budapest, Hungary – 9 May 1931 in London, England), was a Hungarian anthropologist. He was the father of the romance novelist Ursula Torday<br />Emil Torday was born on 22 June 1875 in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the University of Munich, but without completing his degree started to work at a Brussels Bank.<br />During his stay in Congo, he developed his interest in anthropology. After his return to Europe, he met Thomas Athol Joyce, who worked at British Museum. In 1907, he undertook an expedition on behalf of the British Museum in the Kwango River Basin in Belgian Congo, when he amassed a collection of 3000 objects from the Kuba Kingdom for the museum. Particularly outstanding were the three royal Ndop figures he collected. His work was recognised in 1910 when he was awarded the Imperial Gold Medal for Science and Art by the emperor of Austria.<br />On 17 March 1910, he married Gaia Rose Macdonald, a Scottish, and on 19 February 1912, they had a daughter, the novelist Ursula Torday.<br />On 9 September 1931, he died of heart failure at the French Hospital Shaftesbury Avenue, at 55<br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
Camp and tramp in African wilds, 1913; Causeries congolaises, 1925; Notes ethnographiques sur les peoples communément appelés Bakuba, 1910<br />
=== House Publications ===

== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
Photographs, manuscripts, archive material
=== Other Material ===
British Museum<br />Ethnological museum, Budapest<br />
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