Ernest Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist, born in 1925, whose central themes included modernisation theory and nationalism, the latter of which he developed into a leading theory of nationalism. His multicultural perspective let him engage with both the Western world and the Muslim world. He died in 1995. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Ernest Andre Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist.
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1925-12-09
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1925-12-09
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1995-11-05
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1995-11-05
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Paris, France
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Prague, Czech Republic
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Gellner served for 22 years as Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, eight years as the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and later headed the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague.
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Ernest André Gellner was born in Paris, France , into the family of Anna Fantl and Rudolf Gellner, an urban, intellectual Jewish couple from the German-speaking region of Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic ).
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