Max Weber

Max Weber was born in 1864 in Erfurt, in Prussia, the eldest son of a lawyer and politician, and grew up in Berlin, where leading scholars and politicians visited his family's home. He studied law, history and economics at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen and became a professor of economics at Freiburg and then Heidelberg. In 1893 he married Marianne Schnitger, who later became a scholar and campaigner for women's rights and wrote his biography. After his father's death in 1897 he suffered a severe breakdown and stopped teaching for several years. He returned to research, and in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–1905) he argued that the religious ideas of Calvinism and other Protestant groups, which encouraged hard work and self-discipline, had helped the rise of modern capitalism. He also studied the religions of China and India, bureaucracy, law, and the nature of authority and the state. His large work Economy and Society was published after his death. He helped found the German Sociological Association. He died in Munich in 1920 during the influenza pandemic.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; he studied religion as a sociologist. Source: Wikipedia