Gaston Richard

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Gaston Richard (born September 29, 1860 in Paris , † June 9, 1945 in Bordeaux ) was a French sociologist. He was Émile Durkheim's successor at the Chair of Education and Social Sciences at the University of Bordeaux and René Worms ' successor as President of the Institut International de Sociologie (IIS).

Life

Gaston Richard was the youngest son of the painter Marie Octavie Ricois (1830-1908) and the literature professor Charles Richard (1813-1887). He received his Baccalauréat in July 1879 in the field of literature and philosophy. In 1880 he was admitted to the Paris École normal supérieure , where he turned to sociology over the next few years . From 1884 to 1902 he worked as a philosophy teacher at various high schools. He then took over the chair of education and social sciences at the University of Bordeaux , which he held until his retirement in 1930. At the same time and until 1939 he worked at the Institut International de Sociologie (IIS) and for its magazine Revue Internationale de Sociologie (RIS).

Richard was a close and trusted colleague of Durkheim for twenty-five years, but then separated from him as a devout Protestant because of his supposed “sociological atheism” and turned to Durkheim's competitor René Worms. Richard did not join any sociological school, but based his own system of general sociology on Tönnies ' pair of terms community and society .

In 1945, the year he died, Richard was almost forgotten. Although he had written more than 700 articles, reviews and books, his work was only "antiquarian history", it was only rarely included in the series of sociological classics of his time, Gabriel Tarde , Worms and Durkheim.

Fonts (selection)

  • The problems of the famille and the feminism . F. Nathan, Paris 1930.
  • L'évolution des moeurs . G. Doin, Paris 1925
  • La sociologie générale et les lois sociologiques . O Doin et fils, Paris 1912.
  • Pédagogie expérimentale . O Doin et fils, Paris 1911.
  • Notions élémentaires de sociologie . C. Delagrave, Paris 1903.
  • Manuel de morale . C. Delagrave, Paris 1903.

literature

  • Christian Papilloud and Cécile Rol: Morality - Law - Nation. The Sociology of Solidarity Gaston Richards (1860–1945) . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-27296-8 .
  • Heinz Maus and Hans Leo Krämer: Richard, Gaston-Antoine, Francois-Michel . 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. 351.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on Christian Papilloud and Cécile Rol: Moral - Recht - Nation. The Sociology of Solidarity Gaston Richards (1860–1945) . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-27296-8 , introduction, pp. 1–7.
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Maus and Hans Leo Krämer: Richard, Gaston-Antoine, Francois-Michel . 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. 351.
  3. ^ Christian Papilloud and Cécile Rol: Morals - Law - Nation. The Sociology of Solidarity Gaston Richards (1860–1945) . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, introduction, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Richard, Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richard, Antoine François Gaston Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1945
Place of death Bordeaux