Sombart, Werner (1863–1941)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18926596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Sica (0009-0002-9952-2521, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss211.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W2975779778 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Werner Sombart was born on January 19, 1863 in the small Protestant town of Ermsleben (Harz region), and died on May 19, 1941 in Berlin, at the age of 78; the event was fully recorded in the New York Times , with an obituary and an editorial (May 20 and 22). Werner's father, Anton Ludwig Sombart, was of seventeenth‐century Huguenot stock and personified what Sombart's friend Max Weber would call in 1905 “the Protestant ethic” and what Sombart himself named “the bourgeois spirit.” The elder Sombart was elected Burgermeister of Ermsleben in 1848 and became rich as an industrialist and estate owner through the sugar trade. Not satisfied simply to enjoy his wealth, he cofounded the famous Verein für Sozialpolitik (Society for Social Politics), an influential organization of concerned citizens; the society sponsored social research that prescribed government policy, particularly pertaining to the liberation of agricultural workers from virtual serfdom on large estates. Bismarck invited Sombart to become minister of agriculture, but he declined on grounds of poor eyesight
Bourgeoisie · Economic history · Estate · Obituary · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Serfdom · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |