Henri de Saint-Simon
French early socialist theorist
- Lived
- 1760–1826
- Country
- France
Updated September 2026
About Henri de Saint-Simon
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He was a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon.
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