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Maurice Halbwachs (Rheims, 11 March 1877 - Buchenwald 16 March1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory.Halbwachs attended the École Normale Supérieure; in Paris. There he studied philosophy with Henri Bergson, who influenced him greatly. He agregated; in Philosophy 1901. He taught at various lycée before traveling to Germany in 1904, where he studied at the University of Gottingen. He returned to France in 1905 where he met Emile Durkheim and became interested in sociology. He soon joined the editorial board of the Annee Sociologique, where he worked with François Simiand; editing the Economics and Statistics section. In 1909 he returned to German to study Marxism and economics in Berlin.
Throughout WWI Halbwachs worked at the War Ministry. Shortly after the end of the war he became professor of sociology and pedagogy at the 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, when he was called to the Sorbonne in 1935. There he taught sociology and worked closely with Marcel Mauss and served as the editor of Annales de Sociologie, the successor journal to the Annee Sociologique. In 1944 he received one of France's highest honor, a chair at the Collège de France; in Social Psychology. A longtime socialist, Halbwachs was detained by the Gestapo after the Nazi occupation of Paris and deported to Buchenwald, where he was executed in 1944.
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