François Simiand

François Simiand (born April 18, 1873 in Grières , † April 13, 1935 in Saint-Raphaël ) was a French historian of economic and social history and sociologist. In 1932 he became a professor at the Collège de France .

Simiand attended the Lycée Henri IV (where Henri Bergson was his teacher) and studied at the École normal supérieure with a degree in philosophy in 1896 with top grades. Instead of a doctorate and an academic career, he then studied law and wrote his thesis in 1904 on the wages of French miners in coal mining. In 1901 he became a librarian in the French Ministry of Labor and taught economics at the École pratique des hautes études . He also worked at the Année Sociologique of Émile Durkheim at the turn of the century . During the First World War he was in the Ministry of Armaments and was then Labor Director for the province of Alsace-Lorraine for a year. He also taught from 1919 as a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers .

Simiand endeavored to base economic history and sociology in France on a rigorous quantitative statistical basis. He examined the historical development of salaries, price fluctuations and business cycles.

In 1898 he was one of the signatories of the petition in Le Temps in the Dreyfuss affair in favor of Dreyfuss.

Fonts

• La Méthode positive en science économique. PUF, Paris 1911
• Le Salaire: l'evolution sociale et la monnaie. 3 volumes, Librairie Felix Alcan, Paris 1932
• Research anciennes et nouvelles sur le mouvement général des prix du VXIe au XIXe siècle. Domat-Montclirctien, Paris 1932
• The fluctuations économiques à longue période de la crise mondiale. 1933
• La psychologie sociale des crises et les fluctuations économiques de courte durée. Félix Alcan, Paris 1937

literature

• Marina Cedronio: François Simiand: Method Historique et Sciences Sociales. Taylor & Francis 1987

Web links

• Website with his texts
• Literature by and about François Simiand in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )