Charles Letourneau
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| Born | 1831 | ||||||||
| Died | 1902 | ||||||||
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Conseiller d’Etat, Algiers [1872] L'Ecole d'Anthropologie, Paris [1894] | ||||||||
| Occupation | anthropologist | ||||||||
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proposed 1872.03.04
sometimes spelt Letourneux
Report of the Council for 1902: In CHARLES LETOURNEAU French anthropologists have lost an original and suggestive thinker, and the Ecole d'Anthropologie de Paris one of its most eminent professors. Following on the lines laid down by Comte and by Herbert Spencer, but with a closer and more special acquaintance than either with the data of ethnography, he made it his life-work to study the phenomena of human society as a naturalist might study an ant-heap; to collect, classify, and display a vast series of observations, and upon them to found an inductive sociology on strictly anthropological lines. Vigorous and facile in style, rapid and accurate in his methods of work, he published, mainly as the outcome of successive courses of lectures, a series of over a dozen distinct monographs, from the Sociologie d'apres l'Ethnographie of 1879, which first laid down the outlines of his inquiry, to the Psychologie Ethnique of 1901, which he seems to have regarded as summing up his principal conclusions, and as setting his previous volumes in their truie perspective. At the ]Rcole d'Anthropolooie he held the chair of Sociology and the History of Civilization since 1885, and won the reputation of a scholarly, sympathetic, and stimulating teacher; and as General Secretary of the Anthropological Society of Paris his wide knowledge and strong common sense gained him respect and influence among a still wider circle of acquaintances.
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Charles Jean Marie Letourneau is an anthropologist French, born 23 September 1831 in Auray and died 21 February 1902 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris
He entered the Anthropological Society of Paris in 1865
From 1887 until his death, he was secretary-general of the Anthropological Society of Paris. He succeeds Paul Broca, who had held the position until 1880
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1868: The Physiology of passions 1877: Biology 1878 Physiology of passions 1879: Science and Materialism 1880: Sociology from ethnography 1882: Questions of Sociology and Ethnography 1887: The Evolution of morality professed lessons during the winter of 1885-1886 1888: The evolution of marriage and the family 1894: The literary evolution in the various human races 1895: War in the various human races 1897: The evolution of slavery in the various human races 1898: The Evolution of Education in the various human races 1898: The religious development in the various human races 1901: Ethnic Psychology 1903: The condition of women in the various races and civilizations
