Max Weber
Author · 29 books
Max Weber (1864–1920), born in Erfurt and deceased in Munich, was a German sociologist, jurist, and economist. He studied in Heidelberg, Berlin, and Göttingen, and held professorships in economics in Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Munich. Weber is regarded as one of the founders of modern sociology and had a major influence on the cultural and social sciences of the twentieth century. Among his best-known works is the study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published in 1904–05. His other central subjects included authority, bureaucracy, rationalization, and the methodology of the social sciences.