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Auguste Comte was born on January 19, 1798, in Montpellier, France he grew up in the wake of the French Revolution. He rejected religion and royalty. He put his focused on the study of society, which he named sociology. -
In 1814, he entered Ecole Polytechnique and proved to be a brilliant mathematician and scientist. He left school before graduating and settled in Paris with no viable way to support himself. -
In 1826, he began presenting a series of lectures to a group of distinguished French intellectuals. Halfway through the lecture series, he suffered a nervous breakdown -
Comte's efforts furthered the study of society and the development of sociology. He supported himself with a post at Ecole Polytechnique, but clashed with administrators and was dismissed in 1842.
Comte continued to promote his new world order, economics through the scientific understanding of society. He died of stomach cancer in Paris on September 5, 1857