Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias (born June 22, 1897 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); died August 1, 1990 in Amsterdam) was a German sociologist whose work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He influenced the Figurational Sociology or Process Sociology research traditions within sociology.

Biography

Elias was born on June 22, 1897 in Breslau in Silesia to Hermann and Sophie Elias. His father was a businessman in the textile industry and his mother a homemaker who, after the death of her husband in 1940, was murdered at a Nazi concentration camp. He fought in the Prussian army during World War I and then completed his Ph.D. under Richard Hönigswald at the University of Breslau in 1924, then taught at Heidelberg. A Jew, Elias' career was delayed when he fled Nazi Germany in 1933. After two years in Paris, he fled to England where he remained as a refugee for most of his life. Not until 1954 did he again attain a university position, at the Leicester, later at Legon University (Ghana). He began an active retirement in 1962.

Related Topics:
Silesia - World War I - Ph.D - Richard Hönigswald - 1924 - Heidelberg - Jew - Nazi - 1933 - Paris - England - 1954 - Leicester - Ghana - 1962

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