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Gustave Le Bon
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Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931) was a French physician, anthropologist, psychologist, and sociologist. Born in Nogent-le-Rotrou, he was educated at the Paris Medical Faculty and the University of Paris. He served as a director and was a member of the Society of Anthropology of Paris. Le Bon wrote in French and was known by the nickname "Le Célèbre Docteur."
His notable work includes *The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind*. Other works listed include *Psychologie du socialisme*, *L'évolution actuelle du monde*, *A psychologia politica...*, *Premières conséquences de la guerre*, and *Ḥaḍārat al-ʻArab*. He received the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. Le Bon died in Paris and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 May 1841
- Died
- 13 December 1931
- Works
- 229
Top works
- Psychologie du socialisme
- L'évolution actuelle du monde
- A psychologia politica...
- Premières conséquences de la guerre
- Ḥaḍārat al-ʻArab
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 66
- Total plays
- 950
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Minimal criteria for defining multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. The International Society for Cellular Therapy position statement
· 2006 · cited 14,618x
- Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems
· 2013 · cited 14,152x
- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 13,357x
- A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff
· 2012 · cited 11,281x
- UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation
· 2017 · cited 10,185x
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Quotes
- “The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gustave
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Nogent-le-Rotrou
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- Image
- Gustave Le Bon about 1900.jpg
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- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Commons category
- Gustave Le Bon
- date of birth
- 1841-05-07
- date of death
- 1931-12-15
- Commons Creator page
- Gustave Le Bon
- member of
- Society of Anthropology of Paris
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Gustave Le Bon
- nickname
- Le Célèbre Docteur
- writing language
- French
- influenced by
- Bénédict Morel
- birth name
- Charles Marie Gustave Le Bon
- interested in
- sociology
- start of work period
- 1880-01-01
- end of work period
- 1885-01-01
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology.
A native of Nogent-le-Rotrou, Le Bon qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Paris in 1866. He opted against the formal practice of medicine as a physician, instead beginning his writing career the same year of his graduation. He published a number of medical articles and books before joining the French Army after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Defeat in the war coupled with being a first-hand witness to the Paris Commune of 1871 strongly shaped Le Bon's worldview. He then travelled widely, touring Europe, Asia and North Africa. He analysed the peoples and the civilisations he encountered under the umbrella of the nascent field of anthropology, developing an essentialist view of humanity, and invented a portable cephalometer during his travels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gustave Le Bon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.