Max Weber's personal life

Max Weber was born in erfurt, Thuringia on April 2 1864, and his family moved to Berlin soon. His father is a jurist, born in a family of textile industrialists and wholesalers in Westphalia, and a well-known local politician. His father's career has created a good political atmosphere for his family. In his youth, Weber met many outstanding intellectuals and politicians at that time in his parents' living room, such as Dilthey, Monson, zubair, Treitschke and Karp. 1882, Weber entered the law department of Heidelberg University. Like his father, Weber chose law as his main research field and joined the club his father joined in college. In addition to studying law, young Weber also studied economics, medieval history and theology. In addition, he joined the German Defence Force briefly in Strasbourg.

1882 to study law at the University of Heidelberg; 1883, served in Strasbourg for one year; /kloc-in the autumn of 0/884, I returned to my hometown and studied at the University of Berlin; In the next eight years, he studied at the University of G? ttingen for one semester and served short-term military service, then he stayed in Berlin for further study. Weber lives with his parents. In addition to continuing his studies, Weber worked as an intern lawyer and finally as a lecturer at the University of Berlin. 1886, Weber passed the lawyer's "Referendar" exam and became a trainee judge. In the late 1980s, Weber continued his historical research. 1889 completed the doctoral thesis entitled "History of Commercial Organizations in the Middle Ages" and obtained the doctorate in law. Two years later, Weber wrote a book entitled "Roman agricultural history and its importance to public law and private law" and completed his Habilitation examination, so Weber became a formal university professor.

In the year when Weber was about to finish his doctoral thesis, he became interested in social policies at that time. 1888, he joined an organization called Verein für Socialpolitik. Most of the members of this professional group were German economists who belonged to the school of economic history at that time. They took economy as the main method to solve a wide range of social problems at that time, and made a large-scale statistical study of the German economy at that time. 1890, the trade union set up a special research plan to test the increasingly serious problem of eastern migration at that time (because German workers gradually migrated to rapidly industrialized German cities and a large number of foreign workers migrated to rural areas in eastern Germany). Weber is in charge of this research and has written many research results. The final report was well evaluated and widely regarded as an outstanding observational study, thus consolidating Weber's position as an agricultural economic expert.

1893, Weber married a distant cousin, Marianne Schnitger, who later became a feminist and writer. The newlyweds moved to Frejborg on 1894, where Weber was hired as an economics professor at the University of Freiburg. 1896 Weber was also hired as a professor by his alma mater, Heidelberg University. A year later, Weber's father died. Two months before his death, there happened to be a fierce quarrel between father and son, which became Weber's lifelong regret. After that, Weber lost sleep, became more and more neurotic and became more and more difficult to be a professor. His mental state forced him to reduce the amount of teaching, and he left during the semester of 1899. Weber stayed in a mental nursing home for several months in the summer and autumn of 1900, then traveled to Italy with his wife at the end of the year and didn't return to Heidelberg until April of 1902.

After several years of frequent writing in 1968+0890, Weber did not publish any more works from 1898 to the end of 1902, and finally resigned as a professor in the autumn of 1903. After getting rid of the shackles of the school, Weber and his colleague Werner Sombart founded a sociological magazine called Archives of Sociology and Social Welfare in that year, with Weber as the deputy editor. 1904, Weber began to publish some of his most important articles in this magazine, especially a series of papers entitled Protestantism Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, which later became the most famous works in his life and laid the foundation for his later study on the influence of culture and religion on the economic system. This paper was the only one published as a book when he was alive. Also in that year, Weber went to the United States and attended the social and scientific conference held in St. Louis at that time-one of the conferences related to the World Expo. Although Weber's performance became more and more successful, he still felt that he was no longer qualified for the fixed teaching work, so he continued to maintain his identity as a private scholar. 1907 Weber got a considerable legacy, which enabled him to continue to concentrate on his research without worrying about economic problems. 19 12 years, Weber tried to organize a left-wing political party to combine social Democrats and liberals, but ultimately failed, mainly because liberals were still worried about the revolutionary ideas of social democracy at that time.

After the world war broke out 19 14, Max Weber joined the army and took charge of several hospitals in Heidelberg until the end of 19 15, during which he published the book The Economization of World Religions (Preface and Confucianism and Morality). 19 16 went to Brussels, Vienna and Budapest for various informal secret missions, trying to persuade German leaders to avoid the expansion of the war. At the same time, he also asserted that Germany is responsible for world politics and that Russia is the main threat.

19 19 applied to teach at the University of Munich, replacing Professor brentano. From 19 19 to 1920, he taught the history of general economics, which was later published in 1924. Weber supported the republic, but he was not enthusiastic. He joined the revolutionary dictatorship of Kurt Esna in Munich and was a member of the Weimar Constitution Drafting Committee.

1920 On June 4th, Weber died in Munich.

(Atlas of Max Weber as a teenager)