Max Weber Biography

Max Weber biography

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NAME: Max Weber
OCCUPATION: Educator, Philosopher, Scholar, Anti-War Activist, Economist, Literary Critic, Political Scientist, Academic Author, Journalist, Sociologist
BIRTH DATE: April 21, 1864
DEATH DATE: June 14, 1920
EDUCATION: University of Heidelberg, University of Berlin

PLACE OF BIRTH: Erfurt, Germany
PLACE OF DEATH: Munich, Germany

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Max Weber was a sociologist and political economist known for describing the “Protestant ethic,” and for helping to found the German Democratic Party after WWI.

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Max Weber was born on April 21, 1864 in Erfurt, Germany. He worked as a university professor until suffering a nervous collapse. He returned to scholarship in 1903 and wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber argued against Germany's WWI goals and--after the war--assisted in drafting the new constitution and in the founding of the German Democratic Party. He died in 1920.