Max Weber

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)

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Max Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920) who fundamentally shaped how we understand society, economics, and history. His ideas about bureaucracy, capitalism, and the relationship between religion and economic systems remain central to sociology and continue to influence how scholars analyze institutions and social change today.

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Born: 1852
Died: 1937
Works: 17

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Die säugetiere
Studien über Säugethiere
Die Säugetiere: Einführung in die Anatomie und Systematik der Recenten und ...
Contributions to the knowledge of Indo-Australian fishes
Der indo-australische Archipel und die Geschichte seiner Tierwelt

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1786-11-19
Active to: 1826-06-05

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Listeners: 2,872
Total plays: 16,787

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5 total works indexed

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,100x
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
· 1995 · cited 21,193x
Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,929x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,034x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,398x

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Quotes

“The capacity to distinguish between empirical knowledge and value-judgments, and the fulfillment of the scientific duty to see the factual truth as well as the practical duty to stand up for our own ideals constitute the program to which we wish to adhere with ever increasing firmness.”
“Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith.”
“Modern capitalism has as little use for liberum arbitrium [undisciplined] persons as laborers as it has for the businessman fully without scruples in the running of his company.”
“"Rationalism" is a historical concept that contains within itself a world of contradictions.”
“Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.”
“Above all, as will be repeatedly apparent in the sections below, fundamental for our discussion is the investigation of the idea of a testifying to one's belief as the psychological point of origin for methodical ethics.”

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Commons category: Max Weber
date of birth: 1864-04-21
date of death: 1920-06-14
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birth name: Maximilian Carl Emil Weber
name in native language: Max Weber
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Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (/ˈveɪbər/; German: [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. After earning his doctorate in law in 1889 and habilitation in 1891, he taught in Berlin, Freiburg, and Heidelberg. He married his cousin Marianne Schnitger two years later. In 1897, he had a breakdown after his father died following an argument. Weber ceased teaching and travelled until the early 1900s. He recovered and wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. During the First World War, he initially supported Germany's war effort but became critical of it and supported democratisation. He also gave the lectures "Science as a Vocation" and "Politics as a Vocation". After the war, Weber co-founded the German Democratic Party, unsuccessfully ran for office, and advised the drafting of the Weimar Constitution. Meanwhile, he resumed teaching in Vienna and Munich. He died of pneumonia in 1920 at the age of 56, possibly as a result of the post-war Spanish flu pandemic. A book, Economy and Society, was left unfinished.