SAINT-SIMON, HENRI DE

born Oct. 17, 1760, Paris, Fr. died May 19, 1825, Paris in full Claude-henri De Rouvroy, Comte (count) De Saint-simon French social theorist and one of the chief founders of Christian socialism. In his major work, Nouveau Christianisme (1825), he proclaimed a brotherhood of man that must accompany the scientific organization of industry and society. Additional reading Biographical and critical works include E.M. Butler, The Saint-Simonian Religion in Germany: A Study of the Young German Movement (1926, reprinted 1968); Mathurin Marius Dondo, The French Faust: Henri de Saint-Simon (1955); and Frank Edward Manuel, The New World of Henri Saint-Simon (1956, reissued 1963), and The Prophets of Paris (1962), on Turgot, Condorcet, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Comte. See also the relevant chapters in D.G. Charlton, Secular Religions in France, 18151870 (1963, reissued 1970); and Alexander Gray, The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin (1946, reissued 1968).