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1798 – 1857Auguste Comte (1798-1857)Died 5 September 1857, aged 59Comte was a French philosopher who founded positivism and coined the term sociology. He argued that societies progress through theological, metaphysical, and scientific stages of understanding. His ideas influenced the development of social science throughout the nineteenth century.