Marc Bloch was an economic and social historian; he was influenced by the great French thinker of sociology, Emile Durkheim.
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The son of a distinguished rabbi, Emile Durkheim was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, but instead moved to Paris to study, where he became well-versed in the French intellectual tradition of Rousseau, Descartes, and Comte. In 1879, Durkheim was admitted to the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieur. He spent a formative year in Germany, where he encountered Wilhelm Wundt, the influential founder of experimental psychology. Durkheim got a position as lecturer in philosophy and educatio more...
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1858 France, Western Europe,
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God-awful.