Tawney cited Max Weber's THE PROTESTANT ETHIC and THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM as among the most significant and inspiring texts in his area of expertise.
Berger has written of his admiration for Weber and of Weber's influence on his own work.
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Max Weber grew up in the time of Bismarck, and his father was a lawyer and a member of the Reichstag. Weber was privileged to have had a very rigorous education in language, the classics, and history. A man of prodigious learning, he attended several universities: Strasbourg, Gottingen, Berlin and Heidelberg--where he was appointed a professor of economics in 1894--but he did not maintain permanent academic positions due to ill health. He had a nervous breakdown in 1898, and became an independen more...
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1864 Germany, Central Europe,
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