René Maunier

René Maunier (born August 26, 1887 in Niort , Deux-Sèvres department , † 1951 ) was a French legal sociologist .

René Maunier received his doctorate in Paris in 1909 and was professor at the Khedive Law School in Cairo from 1911 to 1918 , where he taught criminal law and political economy . He also edited the statistical publications of the Egyptian Ministry of Justice. In 1919 he moved to the University of Algiers , in 1924 he was appointed to the Sorbonne , at times he also taught at the University of Algiers. In 1935 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was Vice President of the International Institute for Sociology (IIS) and, according to René König in a letter to Helmuth Plessner , served as IIS director during World War II before it was removed from the French register of associations. Maunier had been convicted of collaboration with the German occupation forces and was no longer allowed to hold a teaching post.

Individual evidence

↑ Contrary to the information provided by the German National Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the International Sociological Lexicon names 1946 as the year of death, see Heinz Maus : Maunier, René. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 276.
↑ Biographical information according to Heinz Maus: Maunier, René. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 276.
↑ René König: Correspondence. Part 2, letters 1954 to 1991, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-15022-2 , p. 239.

personal data
SURNAME	Maunier, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French legal sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niort , Deux-Sèvres department
DATE OF DEATH	1951

[1] Contrary to the information provided by the German National Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the International Sociological Lexicon names 1946 as the year of death, see Heinz Maus : Maunier, René. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 276.

[2] Biographical information according to Heinz Maus: Maunier, René. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 276.

[3] René König: Correspondence. Part 2, letters 1954 to 1991, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-15022-2 , p. 239.