SOCIOLOGIST

Georges Gurvitch

1894 - 1965

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Georges Gurvitch (Russian: Гео́ргий Дави́дович Гу́рвич; October 20, 1894, Novorossiysk – December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian-born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of the sociology of knowledge. In 1944 he founded the journal Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Gurvitch has received more than 85,372 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Georges Gurvitch is the 32nd most popular sociologist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 601st most popular biography from Russia (up from 603rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Georges Gurvitch ranks 32 out of 79. Before him are Ziya Gökalp, Saskia Sassen, Robert E. Park, Howard S. Becker, Stuart Hall, and Ludwig Gumplowicz. After him are Harold Garfinkel, W. I. Thomas, Andre Gunder Frank, Herbert Blumer, Amitai Etzioni, and Charles Tilly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Georges Gurvitch ranks 70. Before him are Hans Langsdorff, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Frank Borzage, Wilhelm Schepmann, King Vidor, and Mei Lanfang. After him are T. V. Soong, E. E. Cummings, Fritz Freitag, Albert Leo Schlageter, Friedrich Hossbach, and Friedrich Ebert Jr.. Among people deceased in 1965, Georges Gurvitch ranks 48. Before him are Carl Oberg, Bernard Baruch, Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Hayato Ikeda, and Jesse Douglas. After him are Herberts Cukurs, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, Taimur bin Feisal, Porfirio Rubirosa, Carl Værnet, and Otozō Yamada.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georges Gurvitch ranks 601 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Ge (1831), Valeri Kubasov (1935), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Yaroslav of Tver (1230), and Yury Romanenko (1944). After him are Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Alexander Belyaev (1884), John of Kronstadt (1829), Dersu Uzala (1849), and Nikolay Voronov (1899).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among sociologists born in Russia, Georges Gurvitch ranks 2. Before him are Pitirim Sorokin (1889). After him are Boris Kagarlitsky (1958).

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