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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
 was born January 20, 1798 (according to the
Revolutionary calendar then used in France)
 Death
 He died of cancer on September 5,1857(aged 59)
Influenced by
 the utopian socialist Henri Saint-Simon, Comte
developed the positive philosophy in an attempt to
remedy the social malaise of the French
Revolution, calling for a new social doctrine based
on the sciences. Comte was a major influence on
19th-century thought, influencing the work of
social thinkers such as Karl Marx, John Stuart
Mill, and George Eliot.[3] His concept of sociologie
and social evolutionism set the tone for early
social theorists and anthropologists such as
Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving
into modern academic sociology presented by
Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social
research.
Early Life and Education
 Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier, France.
After attending the Lycée Joffre and then the
University of Montpellier, Comte was admitted to
the École Polytechnique in Paris. The École closed
in 1816 at which time Comte took up permanent
residence in Paris, earning a precarious living
there by teaching mathematics and journalism. He
read widely in philosophy and history and was
especially interested in those thinkers who were
beginning to discern and trace some order in the
history of human society
Career and
Early life
 In 1826 Comte began a series of lectures on his
“ system of positive philosophy” for a private
audience, but he soon suffered a serious nervous
breakdown. He was hospitalized and later
recovered with the help of his wife, Caroline
Massin, whom he married in 1824. He resumed
teaching the course in January 1829, marking the
beginning of a second period in Comte's life that
lasted 13 years. During this time he published the
six volumes of the Course between 1830 and
1842.
 From 1832 to 1842 Comte was a tutor and then
an examiner at the revived École Polytechnique.
He then quarreled with the directors of the school
and lost his post. During the remainder of his life
he was supported by English admirers and by
French disciples. In 1842 Comte separated from
his wife and in 1845 he had a profound
relationship with Clotilde de Vaux, whom he
idolized. She died the following year and after her
death, Comte devoted himself to writing another
major work, the four-volume System of Positive
Polity, in which he completed his formulation of
sociology.
 Though Comte did not originate the concept of
sociology or its area of study, he greatly extended
and elaborated the field. Comte divided sociology
into two main fields, or branches: social statics, or
the study of the forces that hold society together;
and social dynamics, or the study of the causes of
social change. While the concept of sociology was
around before Comte, he is credited with coining
the term sociology.