“religious calling to work caused them to systematically obtain wealth. They wished to prove that they were predestined to go to Heaven. Weber used Benjamin Franklin”
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Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber 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.
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Born 21 April 1864 · Died 14 June 1920 · Q9387
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2026· 7 entries
“can be treated as agents in a course of subjectively understandable action”
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“s political romanticism and also opposed what he saw as the youth groups and nationalists”
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The Kerr County Lead: Symphony of the Hills opens season Oct. 8 with Weber and Brahms — and the Governor came to their July 4 concert
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KSL Sports: Big Sky unveils 20-game, home-and-home schedule for Weber State, SUU, Utah Tech in 2026-27
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KCII Radio: Mid-Prairie’s Weber and Miller Make All-Conference
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Outdoor Sportswire: Weber Ranch Vodka Wins Best New Vodka at 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition
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2020· 1 entry
Provoked several scholarly conferences that were held online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
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2019· 2 entries
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,082 times.
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Keith Tribe published a revised English translation of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe edition of its first four chapters
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 13,008 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology — cited 19,015 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,366 times.
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2002· 1 entry
As the managing body for the German Institutes of the Humanities
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2000· 1 entry
– Max Weber Studies – that is devoted to such scholarship
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1981· 1 entry
With the publication of a prospectus that was colloquially referred to as the "green brochure"
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1969· 1 entry
Published “The Reliability of Molecular Weight Determinations by Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 15,824 times.
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1968· 1 entry
A complete translation of Marianne Weber's prepared version of Economy and Society was published
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1956· 1 entry
The German jurist Johannes Winckelmann edited and organised a revised fourth edition of Economy and Society, later editing a fifth edition in 1976
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1949· 1 entry
Edward Shils edited a translation of Weber's Collected Essays on Methodology, which was published as The Methodology of the Social Sciences
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1946· 1 entry
Which was a collection of excerpts from Weber's writings
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1932· 1 entry
Karl Löwith contrasted Marx and Weber, arguing that both were interested in Western capitalism's causes and effects, but viewed it through different lenses
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1926· 1 entry
Which became one of the central historical accounts of his life
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1920· 2 entries
Died 1920-06-14.
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At the age of 56, possibly as a result of the post-war Spanish flu pandemic
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1919· 1 entry
“s political efforts were unsuccessful, other than supporting a democratically elected and strong presidency. On 28 January 1919, after his electoral defeat, Weber delivered a lecture titled”
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1914· 1 entry
Weber volunteered for service and was appointed as a reserve officer in charge of organising the Heidelberg army hospitals, a role he fulfilled until the end of 1915
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1909· 2 entries
Weber and his wife Marianne traveled to Venice with Else von Richthofen, a former student of his and her longtime friend
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Having become increasingly dissatisfied with the political conservatism and perceived lack of methodological discipline of the Verein, he co-founded the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziolog
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1908· 2 entries
Weber published an article, "Marginal Utility Theory and 'The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics'", arguing that marginal utility and economics were not based on psychophysics
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By the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter as a name for Weber's views on explaining social phenomena
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1904· 3 entries
Alongside his colleagues Edgar Jaffé and Werner Sombart
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Participated in the Congress of Arts and Sciences that was part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition – the World's fair – in St
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“Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy”
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1898· 1 entry
And in a different sanatorium in Bad Urach in 1900
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1897· 1 entry
Had a breakdown after his father died following an argument
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1896· 1 entry
Was appointed to a Heidelberg University economics and finance chair
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1894· 1 entry
Where he was appointed professor of economics at the University of Freiburg
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1893· 1 entry
And married her on 20 September of that year in Oerlinghausen
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1889· 1 entry
And habilitation in 1891, he taught in Berlin, Freiburg, and Heidelberg
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1882· 1 entry
Weber enrolled in Heidelberg University as a law student, later studying at the Royal Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen
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1877· 1 entry
A thirteen-year-old Weber gifted his parents two historical essays, entitled "About the Course of German History, with Special Reference to the Positions of the Emperor and the Pope" and "About the Roman Imperial Period
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1870· 1 entry
Before attending the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium between 1872 and 1882
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1864· 2 entries
Born 1864-04-21.
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Weber studied law and history in Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg
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