Gustave Le Bon

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.

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Who was born first?

• Gustave Le Bon and Mykhailo Drahomanov were born the same year
• Gustave Le Bon and Oliver Wendell Holmes were born the same year
• Gustave Le Bon and Otto von Gierke were born the same year
• Gustave Le Bon and Otto Wagner were born the same year
• Gustave Le Bon was born 1 year before William James

Timeline

1. Gustave Le Bon (this page)May 7, 1841 – December 13, 1931
2. Mykhailo DrahomanovSeptember 6, 1841 – June 8, 1895
3. Oliver Wendell HolmesMarch 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935
4. Otto von GierkeJanuary 11, 1841 – October 10, 1921
5. Otto WagnerJuly 13, 1841 – April 11, 1918
6. William JamesJanuary 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910

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