Chaïm Perelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Chaïm Perelman

philosopher of law

Date of Birth: 20-May-1912

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1984

Profession: professor, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Belgium, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Chaïm Perelman (born Henio (or Henri) Perelman; sometimes referred to mistakenly as Charles Perelman) (20 May 1912, Warsaw – 22 January 1984, Brussels) was a Polish-born philosopher of law, who studied, taught, and lived most of his life in Brussels.
He was among the most important argumentation theorists of the twentieth century.
His chief work is the Traité de l'argumentation – la nouvelle rhétorique (1958), with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, translated into English as The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver (1969).