Marianne and Max Weber

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Marianne and Max Weber

• 1870-1954 1864-1920

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Max Weber (1864-1920)

• Born into a prosperousmiddle-class family
• Childhood in Berlin
• Studied at Heidelberg

• Ph.D. in 1889
• Economics and Legal History

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Max Weber (1864-1920)

• Taught at universities in Freiburg, Munich,
  Vienna, and Heidelberg

• Worked as a consultantfor the government and
  for private reform groups

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Max Weber (1864-1920)

• 1897-1904
• Repeated mental breakdowns

• 1904-1914
• Period of gradual recovery
• Great intellectual productivity (including The
  Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism)
• Affair with Else Jaffe

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Max Weber (1864-1920)

• 1914-1920
• Returned to full schedule of work
• Teaching at the University of Vienna and the
  University of Munich

• 1920
• Died suddenly of pneumonia
• Marianne prepared his work for publication (2/3
  of total lifes work)
• and wrote his biography

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Max Weber (1864-1920)

• Most Important Books

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
  Capitalism (1904)
• The Religions of China (1916)
• The Religions of India (1917)
• Economy and Society - 3 volumes (1921)
• The City (1921)
• General Economic History (1923)
• Methodology of the Social Sciences (1946)

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Marianne Weber (1870-1954)

• Born Marianne Schnitger in Oerlinghausen
• Her mother, of the prestigious Weber
  family,died two years later.

• Her father was a country doctor.
• Grew up in economic difficulty
• Sent to finishing school by wealthy maternal
  grandfather

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Marianne Weber (1870-1954)

• Ambitious
• Determined to achieve something of importance
• Went to live with relatives in Berlin

• to study art
• married their son Max in 1893

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Marianne Weber (1870-1954)

• Able to attend classes at University of
  Heidelberg
• (closed to women)
• because married to a professor

• Became a prolific writerand a feminist
• Max supported her ambitions

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Marianne Weber (1870-1954)

• During Maxs recovery from mental illness the
  Webers traveled.
• visited the United States
• went to Chicago

• got to know Jane Addams and other women at
  Hull House
• In 1907 Marianne received an inheritance from her
  grandfather.

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Marianne Weber (1870-1954)

• When Max died suddenly in 1920, Marianne coped by
• Getting his work published
• Writing his biography

• Lived 34 years more
• Writing about women
• Involved in feminist movements
• Received honorary doctorate from University of
  Heidelberg

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Marianne Weber (1870-1954)

• Most important books

• Marriage, Motherhood, andthe Law (1907)
• Reflections on Women andWomens Issues (1919)
• Max Weber A Biography (1926)
• Marriage and Divorce (1929)
• The Ideal of Family and Community (1930)
• Women and Love (1935)
• Remembrances of Life (1945)