Samir Amin Death
Samir passed away on 12 August 2018 at the age of 86 in Paris, France.
When did Samir Amin die?
12 August 2018How old was Samir Amin when died?
86Where did Samir Amin die? What was the location of death?
Paris, France
Samir Amin Birthday and Date of Death
Samir Amin was born on September 3, 1931 and died on 12 August 2018. Samir was 86 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: September 3, 1931
Date of Death: 12 August 2018
Age at Death: 86
Samir Amin - Biography
Samir Amin was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist. He was noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988. Amin was born in Cairo, the son of an Egyptian father and a French mother (both medical doctors).
He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French high school, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat. From 1947 to 1957 he studied in Paris, gaining a diploma in political science (1952) before graduating in statistics (1956) and economics (1957). In his autobiography Itinéraire intellectuel (1990) he wrote that in order to spend a substantial amount of time in "militant action" he could devote only a minimum of time to preparing for his university exams.
After finishing his thesis, Amin went back to Cairo, where he worked from 1957 to 1960 as a research officer for the government's "Institution for Economic Management". Subsequently, Amin left Cairo, to become an adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963. In 1963 he was offered a fellowship at the Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification (IDEP). Until 1970 he worked there as well as being a professor at the university of Poitiers, Dakar and Paris (of Paris VIII, Vincennes). In 1970 he became director of the IDEP, which he managed until 1980. In 1980 Amin left the IDEP and became a director of the Third World Forum in Dakar.
