Where did Émile Durkheim work?

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Émile Durkheim taught philosophy at various lycées between 1882 and 1887, when he was appointed lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, where he later (1896) became professor of social science. In 1902 he moved to the Sorbonne, where he was appointed professor of education in 1906 and professor of education and sociology in 1913.