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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 79,456 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Gurvitch is the 33rd most popular sociologist (up from 34th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from Russia (down from 598th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Sociologist.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Georges Gurvitch ranks 33 out of 54Before him are Robert E. Park, W. I. Thomas, Thomas Luckmann, Harold Garfinkel, Saskia Sassen, and Ludwig Gumplowicz. After him are Amitai Etzioni, Herbert Blumer, Edwin Sutherland, Charles Tilly, David Riesman, and Mark Granovetter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Georges Gurvitch ranks 71Before him are Américo Tomás, King Vidor, Frank Borzage, Tivadar Soros, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Georges Guynemer. After him are E. E. Cummings, Friedrich Hossbach, Erwin Schulhoff, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Wäinö Aaltonen. Among people deceased in 1965, Georges Gurvitch ranks 50Before him are Otozō Yamada, Adolf Schärf, Clara Bow, Hayato Ikeda, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, and Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i. After him are Henry A. Wallace, Chen Cheng, Oskar R. Lange, Sydney Chaplin, Humberto Delgado, and Ladislas Starevich.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Georges Gurvitch ranks 604 out of 3,262Before him are Konstantin Korovin (1861), Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894), Vladimir Arsenyev (1872), Elem Klimov (1933), Sergey Sazonov (1860), and Nikolai Polikarpov (1892). After him are Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725), Nina Kulagina (1926), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), and Walter Weiß (1890).

Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Russia

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