Bruno Étienne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bruno Étienne

French academic

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1937

Place of Birth: La Tronche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 04-Mar-2009

Profession: political scientist, sociologist, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Bruno Étienne (born in 1937 in La Tronche, Isère, died in Aix-en-Provence on 4 March 2009 after a cancer) was a French sociologist, freemason and a political analyst.
He was a specialist of Algeria, Islam and anthropology of the religious and masonic fact. He graduated in Arabic-language and political sciences at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence and the University of Tunis.
Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the Law Faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara.
He was also director of researches at the CNRS. Teacher at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, he was the founder and was director until 2006 of the Observatoire du religieux.
Bruno Étienne was also member of the Institut universitaire de France. Bruno Étienne was the founder of a school of researchers in Aix-en-Provence including Raphaël Liogier, Jocelyne Cesari and Frank Fregosi.
Gilles Kepel was also under his influence. He was member of the Grand Orient de France and was a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.