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Alfred Weber

1868 - 1958

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Carl David Alfred Weber (German: [ˈveːbɐ]; 30 July 1868 – 2 May 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography. His other work focused on the sociology of knowledge and the role of intellectuals in society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Weber has received more than 350,925 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alfred Weber is the 87th most popular economist (up from 101st in 2019), the 974th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,153rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alfred Weber ranks 87 out of 414. Before him are Thomas Mun, Franz Oppenheimer, Richard Thaler, Edmund Phelps, Lawrence Klein, and James M. Buchanan. After him are Charles Cooley, William Vickrey, Robert Reich, Robert Lucas Jr., Claudia Goldin, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Alfred Weber ranks 40. Before him are Myrtle Corbin, Stefan George, La Belle Otero, Alexandra David-Néel, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Pompeu Fabra, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Kantarō Suzuki, Émile Bernard, Édouard Vuillard, and Felix Hausdorff. Among people deceased in 1958, Alfred Weber ranks 23. Before him are Maurice Gamelin, G. E. Moore, Georges Rouault, Giacomo Balla, Abul Kalam Azad, and Ernst Heinkel. After him are Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, André Bazin, Kim Tu-bong, Tyrone Power, Edna Purviance, and Petru Groza.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Weber ranks 974 out of 7,253. Before him are Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795). After him are Franz Ziereis (1905), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Hardy Krüger (1928), Albert of Riga (1165), and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Alfred Weber ranks 9. Before him are Wassily Leontief (1906), Friedrich List (1789), Werner Sombart (1863), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Eugen Dühring (1833), and Franz Oppenheimer (1864). After him are Gottfried Feder (1883), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Lorenz von Stein (1815), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolph Wagner (1835), and Ernest Mandel (1923).

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