Paul von Lilienfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul von Lilienfeld

Russian statesman and academic

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1829

Place of Birth: Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Jan-1903

Profession: sociologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Paul Frommhold Ignatius von Lilienfeld-Toal (Russian: ????? ????????? ???????????-?????, romanized: Pavel Fëdorovic Lilienfel'd-Toal'; French: Paul de Lilienfeld; 1829–1903) was a Baltic German statesman and social scientist of imperial Russia.
He was governor of the Courland Governorate from 1868 till 1885.
During that time, he developed his Thoughts on the Social Science of the Future, first in Russian as ????? ? ?????????? ????? ???????? (Mysli o sotsial'noi naukie budushchego; 1872), and then in German as Gedanken über die Socialwissenschaft der Zukunft (1873–1881).
Lilienfeld's thoughts, which he later articulated in compressed form in both French and Italian, laid out his organic theory of societies, also known as the social organism theory, organicist sociology, or simply organicism.
He later became a senator in the Russian parliament, as well as vice-president (1896), then president (1897), of the Institut International de Sociologie (International Institute of Sociology) in Paris.