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About Gustave Le Bon

Birth

1841

Death

1931

First book

1880

Years writing

5

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology.

Gustave Le Bon was a French polymath whose intellectual curiosity spanned disciplines as diverse as medicine, physics, and sociology.

His most influential work, The Crowd, is considered a fundamental pillar for understanding the psychology of the masses.

Although he qualified as a doctor at the University of Paris in 1866, he chose to dedicate his life to writing and research rather than practicing medicine.

His prolific literary career resulted in over 200 works exploring complex topics such as ethnopsychology and the evolution of civilizations.

Born in Nogent-le-Rotrou, his worldview was deeply shaped by his first-hand experience during the Franco-Prussian War.