Gustave Belot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustave Belot

French philosopher

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1859

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1929

Profession: philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Gustave Belot (7 August 1859 – 21 December 1929) was a French philosopher and educational administrator. Gustave Belot was born 7 August 1859 at Strasbourg, the son of a professor in the faculty of letters at Lyons.
He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1878, taking the philosophy agrégation in 1881, and becoming a provincial philosophy instructor at Brest and elsewhere.
In 1899 he succeeded Lucien Lévy-Bruhl as professor of philosophy at the lycée Louis-le-Grand.
In 1911 he was appointed Inspector of the Paris Academy, and in 1913 he became Inspector-General of Secondary Instruction.
He died in Paris on 21 December 1929.
Informed by Durkheimian sociology, he was a theorist of collectively-held 'lay morality', which was rational and based upon general interest. Gustave Belot is the brother of Émile Belot (1857-1944), engineer, inventor and astronomer, and the great great uncle of Pierre Pincemaille (1956-2018), musician and organist.