| LC control no. | n 83317687 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Levasseur, Émile, 1828-1911 |
| Variant(s) | Levasseur, E. Levasseur, E. (Émile), 1828-1911 Levasseur, Pierre Émile, 1828-1911 |
| Associated country | France |
| Birth date | 1828-12-08 |
| Death date | 1911-07-10 |
| Place of birth | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Economics Working class--History Commercial geography Population |
| Affiliation | École 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 occupation | Economists Geographers Statisticians |
| Found in | His 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) <https://data.bnf.fr/12276641/emile_levasseur/> Le Dahomey, 1895: t.p. (M. E. Levasseur ; preface signed E. Levasseur) |
| Associated language | fre |
| Invalid LCCN | no2008133332 |
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