HUBERT, Henri Pierre Eugène. Paris 23.6.1872 — Chatou (Yvelines) 25.5.1927. French Sociologist, Scholar of Ancient History and Religion. Born in a middle class family, son of François Hyppolite Hubert and Rosalie Virginie Vitry. He grew up in Paris (Lycée Louis-le-Grand), from 1892 at École normale supérieure, agrégation in history 1895. Studied religion and Semitic languages at E.P.H.E. (i.al. under Lévi). Worked at Musée de Saint-Germain. From 1906 Professor at Ecole du Louvre and 1907 directeur d’études at E.P.H.E. (religions primitives de l’Europe) and conservateur adjoint in Musée de Saint-Germain. Wrote with his friend —> M. Mauss on the sociology of Vedic religion in 1898 and other studies. Also friend of Durkheim. He was a socialist and as a Jew combatted racism and anti-semitism. Married 1910 Alma Johanna Schierenberg (of Germany, d. 1924).
Publications: Works on sociology, ancient history and history of religions, much on Celts, whose role in European prehistory he saw to be of central importance.
– With M. Mauss: “Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sacrifice”, L’Année sociologique 2, 1897-98 (1899), 29-138; “Esquisse d’une théorie générale de la magie”, L’Année sociologique 7, 1902-03 (1904), 1-46; Mélanges d’histoire des religions. 236 p. P. 1909.
– “Mithra”, Grande Encyclopédie 23, n.d., 1134-1138; “L’origine des Aryens. A propos des fouilles américaines du Turkestan”, L’Anthropologie 21, 1910, 519-528.
Sources: F.-A. Isambert, “H.H. et la sociologie du temps”, Revue française de sociologie 20, 1979, 183-204 with further references; O. Laurent in Bérose – Encyclopédie des histoires de l’anthropologie. P. 2020 (online, long article with several pictures); *I. Strenski, “H.H., racial science and political myth”, Jn. Hist. Behav. Sc. 23, 1987, 353-367 ; Wikipedia with photo (see also French version).
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