Born Maximilian Karl Emil Weber
21 April 1864
Erfurt, Province of Saxony, Prussia
Died 14 June 1920 (aged 56)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality Prussia (1864–1871)
German Empire (1871–1918)
Weimar Republic (1918–1920)
Alma mater University of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
Known for
Weberian bureaucracy
Disenchantment · Ideal type
Iron cage · Life chances
Methodological individualism
Monopoly on violence
Protestant work ethic
Rationalisation · Social action
Three-component stratification
Tripartite classification of authority
Verstehen
Scientific career
Fields
Economics sociology history law politics philosophy
Institutions
Universities of Berlin Freiburg Heidelberg Vienna Munich
Doctoral advisor Levin Goldschmidt
Influences
Hermann Baumgarten[1]
Immanuel Kant · Friedrich Nietzsche
· Wilhelm Dilthey
Heinrich Rickert · Georg Simmel
Werner Sombart[2]
Influenced
Karl Jaspers · Georg Simmel
Talcott Parsons · Ludwig von Mises
György Lukács · Theodor W. Adorno
Carl Schmitt · Jürgen Habermas
Joseph Schumpeter · C. Wright Mills
Cornelius Castoriadis · Ludwig Lachmann · Karl Polanyi