Emmanuel Todd
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| Born |
16 May 1951 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France |
| Nationality | France |
| Fields | History, Demographics, Political science, Anthropology |
| Alma mater |
Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris Institute of Political Studies Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Predicting the fall of the Soviet Union |
Emmanuel Todd (born 16 May 1951) is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris. His research examines the different types of families worldwide and how there are matching beliefs, ideologies and political systems, and the historical events involving these things.
Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, Emmanuel Todd is the grandson of the writer Paul Nizan, the son of the journalist Olivier Todd (), and the father of the historian David Todd. Todd has Austrian Jewish ancestry. The historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, who pioneered microhistory, was a friend of the family and gave him his first history book. Aged 10, Todd wanted to become an archeologist. He studied at the Lycée international de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he was a member of the Communist Youth. He then studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to prepare a Ph.D. in history at the Trinity college of the University of Cambridge with Peter Laslett. He defended his doctoral thesis on Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century) in 1976.
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