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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 and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Weber has received more than 338,838 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Alfred Weber is the 102nd most popular economist (up from 113th in 2019), the 1,153rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,278th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Economist.

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  • 24

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alfred Weber ranks 102 out of 315. Before him are Richard Cantillon, Douglas McGregor, Friedrich von Wieser, John Harsanyi, William Vickrey, and Alan Greenspan. After him are William Nordhaus, Vernon L. Smith, Dale T. Mortensen, Eugene Fama, Knut Wicksell, and Tjalling Koopmans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Alfred Weber ranks 48. Before him are Eleanor H. Porter, James Brendan Connolly, Koloman Moser, Magnus Hirschfeld, Édouard Vuillard, and Kantarō Suzuki. After him are Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Gustav Noske, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Ritter von Epp, Empress Dowager Longyu, and Émile Chartier. Among people deceased in 1958, Alfred Weber ranks 31. Before him are André Bazin, Ernst Heinkel, Abul Kalam Azad, Kim Tu-bong, Pál Maléter, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. After him are Petru Groza, Tyrone Power, Duncan Edwards, Princess Louise of Orléans, Prince Oskar of Prussia, and Henri Farman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Weber ranks 1,153 out of 6,142. Before him are Charles De Coster (1827), Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757), Walter Dornberger (1895), Georg von Hertling (1843), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), and David Fabricius (1564). After him are Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227), Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617), Thea von Harbou (1888), and Johann Christoph Adelung (1732).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Alfred Weber ranks 10. Before him are Friedrich List (1789), Werner Sombart (1863), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Gottfried Feder (1883), Eugen Dühring (1833), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810). After him are Lorenz von Stein (1815), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Adolph Wagner (1835), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Ernest Mandel (1923), and Ernst Engel (1821).

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