Georges Balandier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Balandier

French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1920

Place of Birth: Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 05-Oct-2016

Profession: university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Georges Balandier (21 December 1920 – 5 October 2016) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont.
He was a professor at the Sorbonne (Université René Descartes, Paris-V), and is a member of the Center for African Studies (Centre d'études africaines [Ceaf]), a research center of the École pratique des hautes études (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).
He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie (previously held by his mentor Georges Gurvitch) and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France.
He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95.