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Guillaume de Greef
1842–1924
A Belgian sociologist, writer, and journalist, he was part of the early generation that helped shape sociology into a distinct field. His work connected social theory with economics, public life, and reform-minded debate in late 19th-century Belgium.
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Les lois sociologiques
by Guillaume de Greef
About the author
Born in Brussels in 1842 and dying there in 1924, Guillaume De Greef was a Belgian sociologist, writer, and journalist. French-language reference sources describe him as an important early sociological thinker, and library records show a substantial body of work published across sociology, economics, and public finance.
De Greef is often remembered for helping develop sociology in Belgium at a time when the discipline was still taking shape. Scholarly and biographical sources also associate him with reformist and Proudhonian currents of thought, showing how closely his ideas were tied to the political and social questions of his day.
His bibliography includes works such as Les lois sociologiques, Le transformisme social, and studies in economics and finance. Even if he is less widely known today than some of his contemporaries, his writing reflects an ambitious effort to explain how societies change and how social life can be studied systematically.