Alfred Weber (born July 30 1868 in Erfurt - died May 2 1958 in Heidelberg) German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture.

From 1907 to 1933 he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg until his dismissal following criticism of hitlerism. He was reinstated in 1945 and continued in the role until 1958.

Alfred Weber was a brother of Max Weber, an even more influential sociologist.

Weber supported reintroducing theory and causal models to the field of economy in addition to historical analysis . In that field his achievements involve the work on early models of industrial location .

He lived during the period when sociology became a separate field of science. Weber maintained a commitment to the "philosophy of history" traditions. To that field, he has contributed theories for analyzing social change in Western civilization as a confluence of civilization (intellectual and technological), social processes (organizations) and culture (art, religion, and philosophy). He has conducted empirical and historical analyses of the growth and geographical distribution of cities and capitalism.

Weber lived in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, but was a leader in intellectual resistance . After 1945 his writings and teaching was influential both in and out of academic circles in promoting a philosophical and political recovery for the German people.

List of works

• History of Philosophy 1908
• Über den Standort der Industrie (Theory of the Location of Industries) 1909
• Ideen zur Staats - und Kultursoziologie (1927)
• Kulturgeschichte als Kultursoziologie (1935)
• Farewell to European History... (1947)
• Einführung in die Soziologie (1955)

See also

• List of sociologists
• List of economists

External links

• Partial ebook online of History of Philosophy at University of Idaho, Department of Philosophy
• Biography at CSSS
• On Alfred Weber's Theory of Industrial Location
• Alfred Weber and Subsequent Developments in Industrial Location Theory