Louis Althusser
1918 – 1990
French

Intellectual, fervent anti-Nazi, and later leading Marxist theoretician. He was convicted of the murder of his wife in 1980 and committed to an insane asylum.

Contemporaries
1909–1943Simone Weil
1881–1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1847–1922Georges Sorel
1871–1922Marcel Proust
1915–1968Thomas Merton
1882–1973Jacques Maritain
1859–1947Pierre Janet
1869–1951André Gide
1910–1986Jean Genet
1862–1921Georges Feydeau
1859–1941Henri Bergson