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Max Weber

1864 - 1920

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Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (; German: [maks ˈveːbɐ]; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally. His ideas continue to influence social theory and research. Born in Erfurt in 1864, Weber studied law and history in Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Weber has received more than 6,833,224 page views. His biography is available in 129 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 123 in 2019). Max Weber is the most popular sociologist, the 19th most popular biography from Germany (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular German Sociologist.

Max Weber is most famous for his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Max Weber ranks 1 out of 79. After him are Émile Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor W. Adorno, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Ulrich Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Max Weber ranks 1. After him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Wien, Maurice Leblanc, Alois Alzheimer, Camille Claudel, Walther Nernst, Hermann Minkowski, Eleftherios Venizelos, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. Among people deceased in 1920, Max Weber ranks 1. After him are Amedeo Modigliani, Wilhelm Wundt, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Peter Carl Fabergé, Eugénie de Montijo, Anders Zorn, Alexander Kolchak, Alexander of Greece, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Robert Peary, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Weber ranks 19 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Kepler (1571), Albrecht Dürer (1471), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Richard Wagner (1813), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577). After him are George Frideric Handel (1685), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Frederick the Great (1712), Robert Schumann (1810), and Friedrich Engels (1820).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among sociologists born in Germany, Max Weber ranks 1. After him are Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Georg Simmel (1858), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Robert Michels (1876), Andre Gunder Frank (1929), Amitai Etzioni (1929), Juan José Linz (1926), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Claus Offe (1940), and Louis Wirth (1897).

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