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Died 1945 School </wiki/List_of_schools_of_philosophy> Structuralism </wiki/Structuralism>^[/citation needed </wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>/] Main interests Sociology, philosophy, anthropology, cultural Studies Notable ideas Collective memory </wiki/Collective_memory> Influenced by[show] <#> * Mauss </wiki/Marcel_Mauss> Marx </wiki/Karl_Marx> Durkheim </wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim> Henri Bergson </wiki/Henri_Bergson> Influenced[show] <#> * Paul Ricur </wiki/Paul_Ric%C5%93ur> *Maurice Halbwachs* (French: [mis albvaks] </wiki/Help:IPA_for_French>; 11 March 1877 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist </wiki/Sociologist> known for developing the concept of collective memory </wiki/Collective_memory>. Contents [hide <#>] * * * * * * * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Early life and education <#Early_life_and_education> Teaching <#Teaching> Death <#Death> Main ideas <#Main_ideas> Bibliography <#Bibliography> References <#References> External links <#External_links>

Early life and education[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=1>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=1>] </wiki/File:Envoi_Dum%C3%A9zil_%C3%A0_Halbwachs.JPG> </wiki/File:Envoi_Dum%C3%A9zil_%C3%A0_Halbwachs.JPG> Book signed by Georges Dumzil </wiki/Georges_Dum%C3%A9zil> and offered to Maurice Halbwachs in the Human and Social Sciences Library Paris Descartes-CNRS </wiki/Human_and_Social_Sciences_Library_Paris_Descartes-CNRS>, Maurice Halbwachs Collection. Born in Reims </wiki/Reims>, France </wiki/France>, Halbwachs attended the cole Normale Suprieure </wiki/%C3%89cole_Normale_Sup%C3%A9rieure> in Paris </wiki/Paris>. There he studied philosophy with Henri Bergson </wiki/Henri_Bergson>, who had a big influence on his thought. He aggregated </wiki/Agr%C3%A9gation> in Philosophy in 1901. He taught at various /lyces/ before traveling to Germany </wiki/Germany> in 1904, where he studied at the University of Gttingen </wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen> and worked on cataloging Leibniz </wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz>'s papers. He was nominated to co-edit

an edition of Leibniz's work which never came to fruition. He returned to France in 1905 and met mile Durkheim </wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim>, who sparked his interest in sociology. He soon joined the editorial board of /L'Anne Sociologique </wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e_Sociologique>/, where he worked with Franois Simiand </wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Simiand> editing the Economics </wiki/Economics> and Statistics </wiki/Statistics> sections. In 1909 he returned to Germany to study Marxism </wiki/Marxism> and economics in Berlin </wiki/Berlin>. Teaching[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=2>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=2>] Throughout World War I </wiki/World_War_I>, Halbwachs worked at the War Ministry. Shortly after the end of the war, he became professor of sociology </wiki/Sociology> and pedagogy </wiki/Pedagogy> at the University of Strasbourg </wiki/University_of_Strasbourg>. He remained in this position for over a decade, taking leave for a year as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago </wiki/University_of_Chicago>, when he was called to the Sorbonne </wiki/University_of_Paris> in 1935. There he taught sociology and worked closely with Marcel Mauss </wiki/Marcel_Mauss> and served as the editor of /Annales de Sociologie/, the successor journal to /L'Anne Sociologique/. In 1944 he received one of France's highest honors, a chair at the Collge de France </wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_de_France> in Social Psychology </wiki/Social_Psychology>. Death[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=3>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=3>] A longtime socialist </wiki/Socialist>, Halbwachs was detained by the Gestapo </wiki/Gestapo> after protesting the arrest of his Jewish </wiki/Jews> father-in-law.^[1] <#cite_note-1> He was deported to Buchenwald </wiki/Buchenwald>, where he died of dysentery </wiki/Dysentery> in 1945. Part of his books were offered by his widow to the library of the /Centre d'tudes sociologiques/ and are now held at the Human and Social Sciences Library Paris Descartes-CNRS </wiki/Human_and_Social_Sciences_Library_Paris_Descartes-CNRS>. Main ideas[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=4>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=4>] Halbwachs' most important contribution to the field of sociology came in his book /La Mmoire collective/, 1950 ("The Collective Memory"), in which he advanced the thesis that a society can have a collective memory </wiki/Collective_memory> and that this memory is dependent upon the "cadre" or framework within which a group is situated in a society. Thus, there is not only an individual memory, but also a group memory

that exists outside of and lives beyond the individual. Consequently, an individual's understanding of the past is strongly linked to this group consciousness. Halbwachs suicide/, footsteps expanding also wrote an important book on suicide, /Les Causes du 1930 ("The Causes of Suicide"). In this book he followed the of his mentor mile Durkheim </wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim>, and elaborating upon the former's theories on suicide.

Bibliography[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=5>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=5>] * Halbwachs, Maurice, /On collective memory/, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1992 o translated from: /Les cadres sociaux de la mmoire/, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1952, originally published in /Les Travaux de L'Anne Sociologique/, Paris, F. Alcan, 1925 o edited, translated and introduction by Lewis A. Coser </wiki/Lewis_A._Coser>, includes a translation of the conclusion of: /La Topographie lgendaire des vangiles en terre sainte: tude de mmoire collective/, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1941 * Halbwachs, Maurice, /The collective memory/, New York, Harper & Row Colophon Books, 1980, 182 pages o pdfs of chapters 1 and 2 available (pp. 2249 and 50-87) on UCSB Collective Memory seminar website <http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/201/CollectiveMemor ySeminarHome.html#2> o translated from: /La mmoire collective/, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1950 o introduction by Mary Douglas </wiki/Mary_Douglas>, includes a translation of: La mmoire collective chez les musiciens, /Revue philosophique/, no. 3 4 (1939) * Michel Verret, /Lectures sociologiques: Bourdieu, Passeron, Hoggart, Halbwachs, Janet, Le Play, Girard, Naville/, Paris, Harmattan, 2009 (ISBN 978-2-296-10391-7 </wiki/Special:BookSources/9782296103917>). * Dietmar Wetzel, /Maurice Halbwachs/, Konstanz, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009 (ISBN 978-3-86764-106-7 </wiki/Special:BookSources/9783867641067>). * Marie Jaisson and Christian Baudelot </wiki/Christian_Baudelot>, eds, /Maurice Halbwachs, sociologue retrouv/, Paris, Rue dUlm, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-7288-0387-3 </wiki/Special:BookSources/9782728803873>). * Annette Becker, /Maurice Halbwachs, un intellectuel en guerres mondiales 1914-1945/, Paris. Agns Vinot, 2003 (ISBN 2-914645-46-5 </wiki/Special:BookSources/2914645465>). * Grard Namer, /Halbwachs et la mmoire sociale/, Paris, LHarmattan, 2000 (ISBN 2-7384-9595-8 </wiki/Special:BookSources/2738495958>). * Realino Marra, /Halbwachs, la memoria collettiva e lo spazio giuridico/, in Sociologia del diritto, XV-1, 1988, pp. 14150. References[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=6>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=6>] 1. *^ <#cite_ref-1>* Novick, Peter (1999). /The Holocaust in American

Life/. New York: Mariner Books. p. 3. ISBN </wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number> 978-0618082322 </wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0618082322>. External links[edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Halbwachs?veaction=edit&vesection=7>] |]edit source </w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&action=edit&section=7>] * Timeline of Halbwachs's life <http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/sozwww/agsoe/lexikon/klassiker/halbwachs/22bio.h tm> (German) Authority control </wiki/Authority_control> * VIAF </wiki/Virtual_International_Authority_File>: 17223822 <http://viaf.org/viaf/17223822> Persondata </wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata> Name Halbwachs, Maurice Alternative names Short description Date of birth 11 March 1877 Place of birth Date of death 16 March 1945 Place of death Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&oldid=557561017 <//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maurice_Halbwachs&oldid=557561017>" Categories </wiki/Help:Categories>: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1877 births </wiki/Category:1877_births> 1945 deaths </wiki/Category:1945_deaths> People from Reims </wiki/Category:People_from_Reims> cole Normale Suprieure alumni </wiki/Category:%C3%89cole_Normale_Sup%C3%A9rieure_alumni> Executed writers </wiki/Category:Executed_writers> French philosophers </wiki/Category:French_philosophers> University of Chicago faculty </wiki/Category:University_of_Chicago_faculty> University of Gttingen alumni </wiki/Category:University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen_alumni> University of Paris faculty </wiki/Category:University_of_Paris_faculty> University of Strasbourg faculty </wiki/Category:University_of_Strasbourg_faculty> Buchenwald concentration camp victims </wiki/Category:Buchenwald_concentration_camp_victims> Philosophers who died in Nazi concentration camps </wiki/Category:Philosophers_who_died_in_Nazi_concentration_camps> French civilians killed in World War II </wiki/Category:French_civilians_killed_in_World_War_II> French sociologists </wiki/Category:French_sociologists>

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