Auguste comte

Auguste Comte

By KholeH16

  • The Birth Of Auguste Comte

    Auguste Comte was born in 1798, he grew up in the wake of the French Revolution. He rejected religion and royalty. He put his focus on the study of society, which he named sociology.

  • During School

    In 1814, he entered Ecole Plytechnique and proved to be a brilliant mathematician and scientist. He left school before graduating and settled in Paris with no viable way to support himself.

  • Partnership

    In 1824, Auguste partnership ended with Henri de Saint-Simon, a theorist interested in utopian reform and an early founder of European socialism. It ended over disputed authorship of the pair's writings

  • Lecture by Auguste Comte

    In 1826, he began presenting a series of lectures to a group of distinguished French intellectuals. Half way through the lecture series, he suffered a nervous breakdown.

  • Dismissal

    Comte's efforts furthered the study of society, and the development of sociology. He supported himself with a post at Ecole Polytechnique, but clashed with administrators and was dismissed in 1842.

  • Auguste Relationships

    The year that he was dismissed from Ecole Polytechnique he divorced his wife Caroline Massin Comte, after 17 years of marriage. In 1844, he became involved with Clotilde de Vaux, a French aristocrat and writer.

  • Death of his lover

    In 1846, Clotilde De Vaux passed away and Comte wrote the System of Positive Polity.

  • Deth of Auguste Comte

    Comte continued to refine and promote his new world order, attempting to unify history, psychology and economics through the scientific understanding of society. His work was widely promulgated by Europe's intellectuals and influenced the thinking of Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot. He died of stomach cancer in Paris on September 5, 1857