Maurice Halbwachs

Maurice Halbwachs was a French sociologist, psychologist, philosopher, and professor. He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Paris. Halbwachs studied under Émile Durkheim and held positions at the University of Chicago, Collège de France, University of Paris, and University of Strasbourg. He worked in Paris and served as president. His fields of work included philosophy and sociology, and he wrote in French.

Halbwachs authored 23 works, including *On Collective Memory* and *La topografía legendaria de los Evangelios en Tierra Santa*. He received the Knight of the Legion of Honour, the mort pour la France award, and the Resistance Medal. Born in Reims in 1877, he died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. His cause of death was dysentery. He was detained at Buchenwald and is listed as male. His sibling was Jeanne Halbwachs.