André Siegfried
André Siegfried (born April 21, 1875 in Le Havre , † March 28, 1959 in Paris ) was a French sociologist , geographer , economist and writer and a member of the Legion of Honor .
Life
André Siegfried came from an old Protestant Alsatian family. He studied in Paris at the École libre des sciences politiques (Free School of Political Science) and taught there himself from 1911. André Siegfried worked in the fields of history, humanities and law (in this discipline he obtained a second doctorate). It was mainly research that made him famous among French scientists.
As a French economic expert, André Siegfried was appointed to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1932 . He made political studies on the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, electoral sociology and France. In 1944 he was elected to the Académie française , Fauteuil 29.
Siegfried had scientific connections with the German sociologist Gottfried Salomon in the 1920s .
On June 1, 1947 he founded a. a. with René Courtin , Paul Reynaud , Paul Ramadier and Pierre-Henri Teitgen the Conseil français pour l´Europe unie , an association of Christian Democrats that was named Union européenne des démocrates-chrétiens (European Union of Christian Democrats) from 1965 . This ultimately gave rise to the European People's Party , currently the party with the largest number of voters at European level.
Publications
- L'Âme des peuples , Paris, Hachette 1950. Livre available dans Les Classiques des sciences sociales.
- Mes souvenirs de la IIIe République: Mon père et son temps 1836–1922 . Éditions du Grand Siècle, Paris 1946.
- Tableau politique de la France de l'ouest sous la troisième République, 102 Cartes et Croquis, 1 Carte hors-texte . A. Colin, Paris 1913. Facsimile print by Slatkine Reprints / A. Colin, Genève / Paris / Gex 1980, ISBN 2-05-100100-6 .
literature
- Cape: Switzerland: A Democratic Way of Life , 1950.
- G. Bell and sons: Democracy in New Zealand , 1914.
- E. Nash: The Race Question in Canada , 1907.
- Colloquium: Paris 1975: L'œvre Scientifique d'André Siegfried . Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques , Paris 1977.
- Kessinger Publishing: America Comes of Age a French Analysis , 2005, ISBN 0-766198138 .
- Franz Knipping: Rome, March 25, 1957. The unification of Europe . dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-30609-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about André Siegfried in the catalog of the German National Library
- America Comes of Age, 1927
- Founding of the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales in 1947
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Notice biographique ( Memento of January 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siegfried, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sociologist, economist and writer, member of the Legion of Honor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | le Havre |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1959 |
| Place of death | Paris |