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Levasseur, Émile, 1828-1911

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Personal name headingLevasseur, Émile, 1828-1911
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Variant(s)Levasseur, E.
Levasseur, E. (Émile), 1828-1911
Levasseur, Pierre Émile, 1828-1911
Associated countryFrance
Birth date1828-12-08
Death date1911-07-10
Place of birthParis (France)
Field of activityEconomics Working class--History Commercial geography Population
AffiliationÉcole libre des sciences politiques (France)
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (France)
Académie des sciences morales et politiques (France)
Société de géographie commerciale de Paris
École normale supérieure (France)
Profession or occupationEconomists Geographers Statisticians
Found inHis L'ouvrier américain, 1898: t.p. (E. Lavasseur)
LC data base, 3-2-84 (hdg.: Levasseur, Émile, 1828-1911; usage: E. Levasseur, Emile Levasseur)
JSTOR, The Geographical Journal, vol. 38, no. 4, Oct. 1911, Brunhes, Jean. Obituary. Emile Levasseur, viewed January 30, 2020: pages 437-439 (Emile Levasseur; born in Paris December 8, 1838; entered École Normale Supérieure in 1849; schoolmaster in Alençon, then Paris; his doctoral degree was on the system of law (1854), which led him, via history, to the problems of finance and political economy; his work "La question de l'or" (1858) coincided with discovery of goldfields of California and Australia; wrote Histoire des classes ouvrières en France, depuis la conquête de César jusqu'à la Révolution, 3 v. (1859-1867), and Histoire des classes ouvrières en France depuis 1789 jusqu'à nos jours, 5 v. (1900-1907); also a geographer working for development and reform of geographical education; also attracted to statistics, yielding La Population Française, 3 v. (1889-1892); lectured at Ecole des Sciences Politiques, and later at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers; elected to the Académie des Sciences Morales in 1868; on the Central Committee of the Société de Géographie, and a founder of the Paris Society of Commercial Geography)
Wikipedia, January 30, 2020 (Pierre Émile Levasseur; 3rd Baron Levasseur; 8 December 1828 - 10 July 1911; in 1872 he was appointed professor of geography, history and statistics in the College de France; president of the Société d'économie politique; elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1894, and American Antiquarian Society in 1905)
Biblioteque National de France website, record for Émile Levasseur (1828-1911), viewed March 6, 2020: (Émile Levasseur; 1828-1911; author of Le Dahomey)
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Le Dahomey, 1895: t.p. (M. E. Levasseur ; preface signed E. Levasseur)
Associated languagefre
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