Born: 21-Apr-1864
Birthplace: Erfurt, Prussia, Germany
Died: 14-Jun-1920
Location of death: Munich, Germany
Cause of death: Respiratory failure
Remains: Buried, Bergfriedhof, Heidelberg, Germany

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Sociologist, Economist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: The Protestant Ethic

Military service: German Army (Strassburg, 1880s)

Father: Max Weber (politician, Reichstag member, d. 1897)
Mother: Helene Fallenstein
Brother: Alfred Weber (sociologist)
Wife: Marianne Schnitger (his second cousin, m. 1893)

    University: University of Heidelberg (two years)
    University: University of Berlin
    University: University of Göttingen (one year)
    Professor: University of Berlin
    Professor: Political Economy, University of Freiburg
    Professor: Political Economy, University of Heidelberg (1896-)
    Professor: University of Vienna (1918-)
    Professor: University of Munich (1919-)

    Nervous Breakdown incapacitated 1898-1903

Author of books:
Die römische Agrargeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht (1891)
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus (1904–05)
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie (1920–21, 3 vols.)
Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (1922)
Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1923)

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