Editing Maurice Halbwachs (section)

==Early life and education==
[[Image:Envoi Dumézil à Halbwachs.JPG|thumb|350 px|Book signed by [[Georges Dumézil]] and offered to Maurice Halbwachs in the [[Human and Social Sciences Library Paris Descartes-CNRS]], Maurice Halbwachs Collection.]]
Born in [[Reims]], France, Halbwachs attended the [[École Normale Supérieure]] in Paris. There he studied philosophy with [[Henri Bergson]], who had a major influence on his thinking. Halbwachs' early work on memory was in some measure pursued to coincide with Bergson's view on the subject of memory being a particularly personal and subjective experience.<ref name=Hutton1988/>  Bergson taught Halbwachs for three years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Maurice Halbwachs {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-biographies/maurice-halbwachs|access-date=2021-10-19|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> He then [[agrégation|aggregated]] in Philosophy in 1901. He taught at various ''lycées'' before traveling to [[Germany]] in 1904, where he studied at the [[University of Göttingen]] and worked on cataloging [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]]'s papers until 1907. He was nominated to co-edit an edition of Leibniz's work which never came to fruition.

He returned to France in 1905 and met [[Émile Durkheim]], who sparked his interest in sociology. Initially, when meeting Durkheim, Halbwachs was looking for advice on how to move from his previous focus on Philosophy to Sociology. Halbwachs also began to focus on scientific objectivism rather than his Bergsonian Individualism.<ref name=":1" /> He soon joined the editorial board of ''[[L'Année Sociologique]]'', where he worked with [[François Simiand]] and [[Lucien Lévy-Bruhl|Lévy-Bruhl]] editing the [[Economics]] and [[Statistics]] sections. In 1909 he returned to Germany to study [[Marxism]] and economics in [[Berlin]]. Durkheim gave Halbwachs the idea of societal movements and how the environment, people are influenced by Sociological research. This also goes into how different class systems function in broad networks of society.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo3619875.html |title=On Collective Memory |language=en}}</ref>