1858 - 1917
David Émile Durkheim (French: [emil dyʁkɛm] or [dyʁkajm], professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies can maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which traditional social and religious ties are much less universal, and in which new social institutions have come into being. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Durkheim has received more than 4,325,009 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Émile Durkheim is the 2nd most popular sociologist, the 21st most popular biography from France (up from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular French Sociologist.
Émile Durkheim is most famous for his theory of the division of labor, which is the idea that as a society becomes more complex, its people specialize in certain tasks.
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Among sociologists, Émile Durkheim ranks 2 out of 54. Before him are Max Weber. After him are Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor W. Adorno, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Niklas Luhmann.
1864 - 1920
HPI: 86.05
Rank: 1
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 2
1930 - 2002
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 3
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 4
1910 - 2003
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 5
1858 - 1918
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 6
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 7
1922 - 1982
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 8
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 9
1897 - 1990
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 10
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 11
1927 - 1998
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1858, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Max Planck, Giacomo Puccini, Selma Lagerlöf, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Omar Mukhtar, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Giuseppe Peano. Among people deceased in 1917, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Mata Hari, L. L. Zamenhof, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Emil von Behring, and Buffalo Bill.
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 1
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 2
1858 - 1924
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 4
1858 - 1919
HPI: 77.31
Rank: 5
1858 - 1889
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 6
1858 - 1913
HPI: 76.24
Rank: 7
1858 - 1918
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 8
1858 - 1950
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 9
1858 - 1931
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 10
1858 - 1928
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 11
1858 - 1932
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 12
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 1
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 2
1840 - 1917
HPI: 80.34
Rank: 3
1834 - 1917
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 4
1876 - 1917
HPI: 77.20
Rank: 5
1859 - 1917
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 6
1838 - 1917
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 7
1860 - 1917
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 8
1835 - 1917
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 9
1832 - 1917
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 10
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 11
1846 - 1917
HPI: 69.02
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Among people born in France, Émile Durkheim ranks 21 out of 6,011. Before him are Molière (1622), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Charles de Gaulle (1890), John Calvin (1509), Auguste Comte (1798), and Alain Delon (1935). After him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Napoleon III (1808), Coco Chanel (1883), Paul Cézanne (1839), Henri Matisse (1869), and Alexandre Dumas (1802).
1622 - 1673
HPI: 83.95
Rank: 15
1900 - 1944
HPI: 83.63
Rank: 16
1890 - 1970
HPI: 83.58
Rank: 17
1509 - 1564
HPI: 83.38
Rank: 18
1798 - 1857
HPI: 83.37
Rank: 19
1935 - Present
HPI: 83.25
Rank: 20
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 21
1799 - 1850
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 22
1808 - 1873
HPI: 82.57
Rank: 23
1883 - 1971
HPI: 82.18
Rank: 24
1839 - 1906
HPI: 82.12
Rank: 25
1869 - 1954
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 26
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 27
Among sociologists born in France, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Marcel Mauss (1872), Gabriel Tarde (1843), Alain Touraine (1925), Marcel Granet (1884), and Loïc Wacquant (1960).
1858 - 1917
HPI: 82.92
Rank: 1
1930 - 2002
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 2
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 3
1843 - 1904
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 4
1925 - 2023
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 5
1884 - 1940
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 6
1960 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 7