Hubert Bourgin

Hubert Bourgin (November 3, 1874 in Nevers – February 6, 1955 in Crosne, Essonne) was a teacher, politician (from socialism to right), and French writer.

Hubert Bourgin following his studies in high school in Nevers then Janson-de-Sailly (Paris). He won the philosophy honorary award at the Concours General. He entered the École Normale in 1894, it is first to the aggregation of letters in 1898. He is Doctor of Letters in 1905 with a thesis on Fourier. He has a doctorate in law in 1906 with a thesis on the beef industry in the department of Oise of the nineteenth century.

It engages very quickly in politics and among the intellectuals who are mobilizing in favor of Captain Dreyfus (Dreyfus Affair) signing (12th on the list) a petition in The Age and The Dawn January 14, 1898, in which they "protesting against the violation of legal forms and the 1894 trial against the mysteries surrounding the Esterhazy case."[1]

He teaches second high school in Beauvais 1889–1907, professor at Lycée Voltaire 1907–1911, professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1911–1937 where he held his choice of a third chair.

From 1905 to 1923, the social curiosity of Hubert Bourgin manifested itself in numerous investigations: the slaughter activity at different ages – relations between employers, workers and the state; public assistance problem in England in Sidney and Beatrice Webb; changes in industrial development and market fluctuations; the steel industry in France at the beginning of the Revolution; study of socialist systems (Doin) of the eighteenth century and Gracchus Babeuf at the Amsterdam Congress in 1904, and from there to the forms of what Hubert Bourgin called the decomposition of socialism: revisionism, reformism, unpatriotic, anarchism, Bolshevism. This incomplete list shows Bourgin Hubert is one of the most representative social historians in what might be called the three wars between (1870–1914–1939).

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