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Edgar Morin studied history, sociology economics and philosophy and holds degrees in History and Geography as well as in law.
He was a volunteer in the resistance as a lieutenant from 1942 – 1944
Attached to the general staff of the first French Army in Germany (1945).
Head of the 'propaganda' office of the military government in Germany (1946).
His first book was 'The year zero of Germany'.
He was active as a journalist in Paris.
Wrote 'Man and Death' (1947 – 1950).
Investigator/researcher at the CNRS.
Co-director of the centre of interdisciplinary studies (Sociology, Anthropology and Politics) at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (1973 – 1989).
President of the European Agency for Culture (UNESCO).
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