Maurice Halbwachs

Maurice Halbwachs (; 11 March 1877 – 16 March 1945) was a French philosopher and sociologist known for developing the concept of collective memory. Halbwachs also contributed to the sociology of knowledge with his ''La Topographie Legendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte''; study of the spatial infrastructure of the New Testament. (1951) Provided by Wikipedia