Ante Fiamengo

Croatian sociologist (Komiža, April 29, 1912 – Zagreb, December 3, 1979). Graduated in philosophy in Belgrade, and received his doctorate in 1956 in Zagreb. From 1951 he taught philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. One of the founders of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, where he is a full professor of sociology. He dealt with the sociology of religion, theoretical and political sociology. Wrote the textbook Basics of General Sociology (1962, 18 editions until 1990), edited a volume of the sociological chronology of Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte (1966), for which he wrote a comprehensive introductory study, and published numerous articles in magazines and anthologies. Important works: The Origin and Social Role of Religion (1950), How Religion Became (1952), Cosmopolitanism and Proletarian Internationalism (1959), Foundations of Marxist Sociology (1968).