Full Name
Date of Birth
October 15, 1876
Date of Death
March 2, 1969
Place of Birth
La Grande Rivière du Nord, Haiti, Haiti
Place of Death
Education
- Lycée Grégoire (Cap-Haïtien)
- Lycée Pétion (Port-au-Prince)
- Studied medicine in France
- Studied Humanities and Social Sciences at the Sorbonne University, College de France, and Trocadero Museum
Spouse’s Name
Not available
Known Affiliates Names
- Negritude movement (played a primary role)
Affiliated Organizations’ Names
- Negritude movement (played a primary role)
Major Events
- First Congress of Black writers and artists (elected President in 1956)
Brief Biography
Jean Price-Mars, born on October 15, 1876, in La Grande Rivière du Nord, Haiti, was a Haitian physician, public official, diplomat, ethnologist, and historian. He played a leading role in the development of human and social sciences and was a prominent figure in the Negritude movement, which prompted the revival of African cultural nationalism. Price-Mars authored more than one hundred books, articles, and speeches in the fields of anthropology, history, pedagogy, politics, and literature. His seminal work, “Ainsi parla l’oncle” (So Spoke the Uncle), has been published and translated into several languages. He served as Haitian chargé d’affaires in Washington, D.C. (1908–1911); national inspector of public education (1912–1915); and minister to France (1915–1916)[1][2][3][4][5].
Citations: [1] https://www.haiti.org/who-was-jean-price-mars/ [2] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Price-Mars [3] https://drcelucienjoseph.com/2023/06/13/some-updates-about-my-intellectual-biography-on-jean-price-mars/ [4] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-price-mars-othello-95b271174 [5] https://www.jstor.org/stable/23414662