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Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte ( French: [oˈɡyst kɔ̃t] ( listen); 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) [6] was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. [7]

Auguste Comte (1798–1857) is the founder of positivism, a philosophical and political movement which enjoyed a very wide diffusion in the second half of the nineteenth century. It sank into an almost complete oblivion during the twentieth, when it was eclipsed by neopositivism.

Auguste Comte was born on January 20, 1798 (according to the Revolutionary calendar then used in France), in Montpellier, France. He was a philosopher who is also considered to be the father of sociology, the study of the development and function of human society, and of positivism, a means of using scientific evidence to discern causes for ...

Isidore Marie Auguste Francois Xavier Comte, known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher, born on January 19, 1798, in Montpellier, France, and died on September 5, 1857, in Paris....

Comte died of stomach cancer in Paris on September 5, 1857. Though self-centered and egocentric, Comte devoted himself to the betterment of society. QUICK FACTS Name: Auguste Birth Year: 1798...

Auguste Comte, (born Jan. 19, 1798, Montpellier, France—died Sept. 5, 1857, Paris), French thinker, the philosophical founder of sociology and of positivism. A disciple of Henri de Saint-Simon , he taught at the École Polytechnique (1832–42) but gave free lectures to workingmen.

Auguste Comte (1788-1857) was a French philosopher and is known as the father of Sociology. He coined the term Sociology for the first time in 1838. Before 1838, sociology was not an independent science but was seen as a part of general philosophy.

Auguste Comte was a French philosopher born on 19th January 1798 and died on 5th September 1857. His birthplace was Montpellier, France. He is known as “the father of ‘Sociology” as he was the first one to realize the importance of relating sociology with science. He has made huge contributions to the subject along with which he coined ...