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Auguste was born in Montpellier, France
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Comte was "intellectually precocious" and attended École Polytechnique
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The school had temporarily closed but this did not stop Comte from continuing his education and furthering his career.
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Comte's was married to Caroline Massin for quite sometime 17 years to be exact until in 1842 they had decided to separate due to unhappiness.
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Comte's created a series of lectures on his "System of Positive Philosophy" work for a private audience. But unfortunately, Comte had a horrible nervous breakdown and these lectures had come to a halt
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These particular 12 years Comte spent creating his six volumes of "Cours de Philosophie Positive"
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Comte started tutoring and examining at Polytechnique as it had finally reopened. Except that Comte had been given a hard time throughout this and thus lost his post at the school but still had a following from his "french disciples"
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Comte's last volume in his series!
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Comte had actually pursed a romantic relationship with said "Clotilde de Vaux" but his relationship with her ended very quickly as she died from tuberculosis that next year.
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Comte had created a new series that consisted of 4 volumes called "Système de politique positive" (System of Positive Polity) and thus brought the creation of "Sociology" to the surface of the science realm
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System of Positive Polity cover of his second series
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Comte also published "Catéchisme positiviste" The Catechism of Positive Religion)
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Comte published one more reading in 1856 called "Synthèse subjective" (Subjective Synthesis)
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Auguste sadly died of cancer but his impact of his work was greatly appreciated by those who followed him and continued on his work and others learned immensely from his few other publishings.