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Early life
Born January 19, 1798 asIsidore Auguste Marie Francois Xavier Comte. Auguste Comte was born to Louise Comte and Rosalie Boyer, Roman Catholics who where at odds with the after math of French revolution. Auguste Comte learned from a young age to combat these feelings by rejecting roman Catholism and royalist alike. He was placed in Ecole Polytechnique in 1814, a school in Paris that was founded in 1794 to train military engineers, but was soon transferred to a general school for advanced science. -
Auguste Comte important acquaintance
Auguste Comte's most important acquaintance in Paris was Henri de Saint- Simon a French social reformer, and one of the founders of socialism. Comte thought along the same lines as Simon, and some of Comtes most earliest article where published, are in Saint-Simon's publications. Though the two men had very different view points on scientific background, resulting in Comte breaking from Saint-Simon. -
Auguste comte making a name
Though the school for advance science closed in 1816 Auguste comte soon moved to Paris where he began working teaching mathmatics on occasion and journalism. He read a large amount about history and philosophy, being most interested in those who where tracing the history of human society. He began to work, thoughts from French political philosophers such as Montesquieu, the Marquies de Condorcet, A-R. J Turgot, and Joseph de Maistre, into his own system. -
later in life
In 1826 Comte began giving a series of lecture to private audiences on his system of Positive philosophy, though sadly it was short lived, Come suffered a severe nervous breakdown. Making a almost complete recovery the fallowing year. in 1828 Comte began his lecturing again, this was such a success that he delivered it again at the Royal Anthem during 1828 through 1830. The next 12 year where dedicated to his publication of his Philosophy in work in 6 volumes entitled Cours de Philosophie.
