Louis Dumont

1911 - 1998

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: Institut d'ethnologie, Lycée Saint-Louis, École pratique des hautes études, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

occupation: anthropologist, university teacher, sociologist

award received: honorary doctor of the University of Chicago, Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne, Huxley Memorial Medal

student of: Marcel Mauss

Louis Charles Jean Dumont (11 August 1911 – 19 November 1998) was a French anthropologist. Dumont was born in Thessaloniki, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He taught at Oxford University during the 1950s, and was then director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. A specialist on the cultures and societies of India, Dumont also studied western social philosophy and ideologies. Source: Wikipedia (en)