Maurice Halbwachs

Maurice Halbwachs is a Sociologue French of the school Durkheim ienne born with Rheims the March 11th 1877 and died in deportation with Buchenwald the March 16th 1945. He is the author of a thesis on the working class and the standards of living , and its most famous work studies the concept of Collective memory, which he created.

Halbwachs is the son of a German professor to the College of Rheims. It is aggregate of philosophy, doctor in right and arts, is appointed university lecturer of philosophy to the faculty of letters of Caen then, in 1919, professor of sociology to the faculty of Strasbourg. In 1935, it obtains a pulpit with the Sorbonne. Halbwachs travels much and is named president of the French Institut of sociology in 1938. May 10th, 1944, he is elected at the pulpit of collective psychology to the Collège de France but on July 23rd, he is stopped by the Gestapo, a few days after his son Pierre, a few months after the assassination of his parents-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Basch. He is interned with Fresnes then off-set in Buchenwald, where he dies.

Author of many works of sociology, his work, very whole in the wake of Durkheim, nevertheless was marked by the influence of Bergson of which he was the pupil.

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Works (nonexhaustive list)

the working class and standards of living (thesis of doctorate), Alcan, Paris, 1913 to read in line
the social executives of memory , Alcan, 1925 to read in line
the causes of the suicide , 1930 to read in line
the legendary topography of the Holy Land Gospels; study of collective memory , 1941
the collective memory 1950 to read in line

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