![]() ![]() Moise’s father and grandfather before him had been rabbis as well. ![]() His father Moise, was a regional Chief Rabbi. Social Background/Familyĭurkheim’s mother, Melanie, was the daughter of a horse merchant. He would spend his entire life living and working in France. Intelligent and productive, Durkheim would do much to create and institutionalize the new discipline of sociology in France. Unlike Marx, whose youth was spent during the tumultuous first half of the nineteenth century, by the time Durkheim was a young man France was experiencing one of its longest governments, the Third Republic (1870-1940). Overviewĭavid Emile Durkheim was born in Epinal, France on April 15, 1858. In addition to Fournier, the following recommended sources were used for compiling this biography, listed in order from oldest to most recent: Gehlke, Emile Durkheim’s Contributions to Sociological Theory (1915), Alpert, Emile Durkheim and His Sociology(1939) Nisbet, Emile Durkheim(1965) Bierstedt, Emile Durkheim(1966) Lukes, Emile Durkheim, His Life and Work(1972) Giddens, Durkheim(1978), Parkin, Durkheim(1992) Jones, The Development of Durkheim’s Social Realism(1999) Stedman Jones, Durkheim Reconsidered(2001) Allen, Durkheim: A Critical Introduction(2017). ![]() Until this publication, there were many books on Durkheim’s contributions to sociology, but comparatively little was known about his personal and family life. NOTE ON SOURCES: The most comprehensive biography of Durkheim, by Marcel Fournier, was published as recently as 2012. ![]()
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