2 Quotes & Sayings By Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner was born in Vienna, Austria, in April 1907, and died in Oxford in February 1994. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex from 1948 to 1979. He was a founder member of the Institute for the Study of Society and History, and editor of the Journal of Contemporary History from 1959 to 1975; Chairman of the British Sociological Association from 1972 to 1976; and Chairman of the European Sociological Association from 1972. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.