Maurice Parmelee

Maurice Parmelee was born on October 20, 1882 in Istanbul, to protestant missionary parents.¹Maurice Parmelee papers . Parmelee was a sociologist, nudist criminologist and the author of 13 books, including Nudism in Modern Life, a book about the birth nudism and nature in modern society. He received an M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1908 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1909. He served on the University of Missouri Faculty from 1910 to 1914. He was dismissed from his government position because of his stand on naturism. He served as the honorary president of the American Gymnosophical Association² Say, Whatever Became of Maurice Parmelee, Anyway

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  Maurice Parmelee papers
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  Say, Whatever Became of Maurice Parmelee, Anyway