Jean Gaulmier [SEP] place of death
Jean Gaulmier
Jean Gaulmier (10 March 1905, Charenton-du-Cher11 November 1997, Paris) was a French orientalist who befriended Zaki al-Arsuzi, one of the principal founders of Ba'athism.
France. He studied there from 1927 to 1930, but never obtained a degree from the Sorbonne. During his stay at the Sorbonne, Arsuzi befriended former French colonial administrator Jean Gaulmier. At the Sorbonne, Arsuzi developed an interest in 19th-century European philosophy; he became attracted to the thoughts of Georges Dumas, Emile Brehier, Leon Brunschvig (his philosophy professor), Henri Bergson and Johann Gottlieb Fichte among others. The books which influenced Arsuzi most at the time were Bergson's "L'Evolution créatrice" and Fichte's "