About Octave Hamelin
Octave Hamelin was a French philosopher. He taught as a professor at the University of Bordeaux (1884-) and the University of Sorbonne (1905-). Hamelin was a close friend of the sociologist Émile Durkheim, with whom he shared an interest in the French philosopher Charles Renouvier. He is also known as a translator of classical Greek philosophers. Octave Hamelin (22 July 1856, Montpellier – 11 September 1907, Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales) was a French philosopher.
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