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• Hij is geboren op 22 juni 1897 in Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland.
• Woonachtig in het jaar 1933: NikolaistadtGraben 14, Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland.
• Hij is overleden op 1 augustus 1990 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, hij was toen 93 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Herrmann Elias en Sofie Gallewski

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German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.His father was a businessman in the textile industry. he volunteered for the German army in World War I and was employed as a telegrapher, first at the Eastern front, then at the Western front. After suffering a nervous breakdown in 1917, he was declared unfit for service and was posted to Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland as a medical orderly. The same year, Elias began studying philosophy, psychology and medicine at the University of Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland), in addition spending a term each at the universities of Heidelberg (where he attended lectures by Karl Jaspers) and Freiburg in 1919 and 1920. To finance his studies after his father's fortune had been reduced by hyperinflation, he took up a job as the head of the export department in a local hardware factory 1922. In 1924, he graduated with a doctoral dissertation in philosophy entitled ("Idea and Individual") supervised by Richard Honigswald, a representative of Neo-Kantianism. Disappointed about the absence of the social aspect from Neo-Kantianism, which had led to a serious dispute with his supervisor about his dissertation, Elias decided to turn to sociology for his further studies. During his Wroclaw, Silesia, Poland) years, until 1925, Elias was deeply involved in the German Zionist movement, and acted as one of the leading intellectuals within the German-Jewish youth movement "Blau-Weiss" (Blue-White). During these years he got acquainted with other young zionists like Erich Fromm, Leo Strauss, Leo Lowenthal and Gershom Scholem. In 1930 Elias followed Karl Mannheim to become his assistant at the University of Frankfurt. However, after the Nazi take-over in early 1933, Mannheim's sociological institute was forced to close. The already submitted habilitation thesis entitled Der hofische Mensch ("The Man of the Court") was never formally accepted and not published until 1969. In 1933, Elias fled to Paris. In 1935, he moved on to Great Britain, where he worked on his magnum opus, The Civilizing Process, until 1939, now supported by a scholarship from a relief organization for Jewish refugees. While in Cambridge, he trained as a group therapist under the psychoanalyst S. H. Foulkes, another German emigrant, with whom he co-founded the Group Analytic Society in 1952 and worked as a group therapist. Elias was detained at internment camps in Liverpool and on the Isle of Man for eight months, on account of his being German. Elias was the first ever laureate of both the Theodor W. Adorno Award (1977) and the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences (1987).

The Norbert Elias Foundation was established in 1983 on the initiative of Norbert Elias himself, its aim being to stimulate research in the social sciences, especially in light of his own broad vision for them. When Elias died on 1 August 1990, the Foundation was his sole legatee,

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