Guenther Roth
Guenther Roth (born January 12, 1931 in Wolfskehlen ; † May 18, 2019 in New York ) was a German-American sociologist .
Life
Guenther Roth grew up in Darmstadt and attended the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium there . He continued his sociology studies, which he had begun in 1951 in Frankfurt am Main at the Institute for Social Research with Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock , in the USA in autumn 1953, first with Kurt Heinrich Wolff at Ohio State University . At the New School of Social Research in New York, he met German emigrants who had stayed in the USA, such as Alfred Schütz , Albert Salomon and Otto Kirchheimer . With Reinhard Bendix , he received a position as research assistant at the Institute for Industrial Relations in Berkeley in 1955 , where he received his doctorate in 1960 on German Social Democracy in the German Empire. With his translation of Max Weber's Economy and Society into English, which he carried out with Claus Wittich , he ensured an in-depth Max Weber reception worldwide. After a professorship at the University of Washington in Seattle , he held a chair at Columbia University until 1997 .
He was married to the historian Caroline Walker Bynum .
Fonts (selection)
- The Social Democrats in Imperial Germany. A Study in Working-Class Isolation and National Integration. Bedminster Press, Totowa, 1963.
- Max Weber's German-English family history 1800–1950. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2001, ISBN 3-16-147557-7 (with letters and documents).
- Political rule and personal freedom. Heidelberg Max Weber Lectures 1983. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1987, ISBN 3-518-28280-8 . In it autobiographical: Political generation experience and intellectual interest: attempt on a German-American career.
- with Wolfgang Schluchter : Max Weber's Vision of History: Ethics and Methods. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979.
- Max Weber, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1978.
- Partisanship and Scholarship. In: Bennett M. Berger (Ed.): Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990, pp. 383-409.
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : From the Frankfurt School to Max Weber. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 12, 2011
- M. Rainer Lepsius : Guenther Roth on his 75th birthday (January 12, 2006). In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology , vol. 58, number 1, pp. 189f. doi: 10.1007 / s11575-006-0030-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Guenther Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : With Weber on the memory: on the death of the sociologist Guenther Roth , in: FAZ May 22, 2019, page 13
- ↑ Claus Wittich at worldcat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Guenther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolf throats |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2019 |
| Place of death | New York City |