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Norbert Elias

1897 - 1990

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Norbert Elias (German: [ˈnɔʁbɛʁt eˈliːas]; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Norbert Elias is the 11th most popular sociologist (down from 10th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Poland (down from 87th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Sociologist.

Norbert Elias is most famous for his book, The Civilizing Process, which describes the development of manners and morals in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Norbert Elias ranks 11 out of 79. Before him are Anthony Giddens, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, and Marcel Mauss. After him are Ulrich Beck, Karl Mannheim, Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, Gabriel Tarde, and Manuel Castells.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Norbert Elias ranks 28. Before him are Louis Aragon, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Ferenc Szálasi, Frank Capra, Gordon Allport, and Kurt Schuschnigg. After him are Enid Blyton, Pola Negri, Georg Wittig, Kurt Daluege, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and Karl-Otto Koch. Among people deceased in 1990, Norbert Elias ranks 17. Before him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, B. F. Skinner, Roald Dahl, Pavel Cherenkov, Sarah Vaughan, and Sergei Parajanov. After him are Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Ronald Evans, Ilya Frank, John Bowlby, Robert Hofstadter, and Patrick White.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Norbert Elias ranks 101 out of 1,694. Before him are Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Władysław Reymont (1867), Józef Gosławski (1908), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), and Bolesław I the Brave (967). After him are Egon Krenz (1937), Günter Blobel (1936), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Marie Walewska (1786), and Georg Forster (1754).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among sociologists born in Poland, Norbert Elias ranks 1. After him are Ulrich Beck (1944), Ludwig Gumplowicz (1838), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), and Grażyna Gęsicka (1951).

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