Maurice Halbwachs | |
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Born | 11 March 1877 Reims, France |
Died | 16 March 1945 (aged 68) |
Relatives | Jeanne Halbwachs (sister) |
Main interests | Sociology, philosophy, psychology |
Notable ideas | Collective memory |
Maurice Halbwachs (French: [moʁis albvaks]; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his La Topographie Legendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte, a study of the spatial infrastructure of the New Testament (1951).[1][2]