Maurice Halbwachs

French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 68

Maurice Halbwachs 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).

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