25 Facts About Maurice Halbwachs

Maurice Halbwachs taught at various lycees before traveling to Germany in 1904, where he studied at the University of Gottingen and worked on cataloging Leibniz's papers until 1907.

Maurice Halbwachs was nominated to co-edit an edition of Leibniz's work which never came to fruition.

Maurice Halbwachs returned to France in 1905 and met Emile Durkheim, who sparked his interest in sociology.

Maurice Halbwachs began to focus on scientific objectivism rather than his Bergsonian Individualism.

Maurice Halbwachs soon joined the editorial board of L'Annee Sociologique, where he worked with Francois Simiand and Levy-Bruhl editing the Economics and Statistics sections.

Maurice Halbwachs remained in this position for over a decade, taking leave for a year in 1930 as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, when he was called to the Sorbonne in 1935.

Maurice Halbwachs taught as a professor of sociology in Sorbonne, Paris from 1935 to 1943 and a professor of social psychology at the College de France from 1943 until death.

Towards the end of his life, Maurice Halbwachs was recognized for his contributions to sociology.

Maurice Halbwachs was elected into the Conservative Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

Maurice Halbwachs was recognized as the Vice President of the French Psychological Society, while being called to chair at Sorbonne.

Maurice Halbwachs was married to Yvonne Basch, who introduced Halbwachs to her father, the president of the League for the Defense Human Rights and influenced him to join the Jewish religion.

Maurice Halbwachs had a son, Pierre Halbwachs, who influenced Deleuzian theory in the 1940s.

Maurice Halbwachs was deported to the concentration camp, Buchenwald, where he died of dysentery in February 1945.

Maurice Halbwachs wrote an important book on suicide, Les Causes du suicide, 1930.

Maurice Halbwachs continued to further Durkheim's conceptualization of how specific family styles and religious backgrounds alter rates of suicide.

Maurice Halbwachs included in his Les Cadres Sociaux de la Memoire the significance of the collective memory operating on the systems of family, religion and social communities.

Maurice Halbwachs takes an interesting perspective regarding the relationship between memory and history.

Maurice Halbwachs believed that memory and history oppose each other when it comes to reliability.

Maurice Halbwachs contributed to the world of social psychology as well with his thesis on La Classe ouvriere et les niveaux de vie which translates to, "The Working Class and the Standards of Living".

Maurice Halbwachs discovered that families and individuals not only plan out their budget for what they need in the moment but what they need in the future, which forces them to put into perspective what is necessary in the moment.

Maurice Halbwachs's research is a modification of Durkheim's theory of collective representation.

Maurice Halbwachs showed how memory can not exist without society influencing the mind, embracing how collective consciousness impacts us each and every day.

Maurice Halbwachs establishes the difference between memory which is subjective and history is factual in its background.

Maurice Halbwachs was influenced by ideas of Emile Durkheim, such as collective consciousness, with adding more to this term by individual and collective memory.

Maurice Halbwachs was influenced by Henri Bergson's stance on subjectivity, which creates states how this impacts our consciousness and intuition.