Herbert Franz Wolf
Herbert Franz Wolf (born June 24, 1927 in Rudelsdorf ; † May 15, 1993 in Leipzig ) was a German sociologist who taught as a professor at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and was one of the founders of sociology in the GDR .
Life
After the Second World War , in which he was first an air force helper and then a tank grenadier, Wolf finished his school education in 1947 at the Schönebeck secondary school . He then studied from 1947 to 1949 at the University of Rostock and from 1949 to 1951 at the University of Leipzig social sciences . There he was in 1964 with a thesis on the formal sociology Leopold von Wiese Dr. phil. PhD . A second doctorate ( Dr. sic. Phil. ) Followed in 1973, also in Leipzig . The title of the dissertation was: Socialist perspective awareness as a subjective driving force of action .
From 1969 to 1976 Wolf taught as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Leipzig, interrupted by a six-month guest lecturer at the University of Havana (1974), from 1956 to 1990 he was a full professor of Marxist-Leninist sociology there . He was a co-founder of the Society for Sociology of the GDR and from 1989 to 1991 chairman of the Regional Association South and from 1991 co-editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology . From 1992 until his death he was a member of the German Society for Sociology .
Wolf is counted among the co-founders of academic sociology in the GDR because he and Robert Wilhelm Schulz initiated a sociological seminar at Leipzig University as early as 1957 , where empirical social research was soon carried out.
Fonts (selection)
- The development of formal sociology and its systematic formulation by Leopold von Wiese. A contribution to the analysis of the crisis development of bourgeois sociology . Leipzig 1964 (dissertation).
- Socialist perspective consciousness as a subjective driving force of action . Leipzig 1973 (dissertation).
- Contributions to Marxist-Leninist sociology . Leipzig 1984 (editor).
- Collective relationships and way of life . Dietz, Berlin 1984 (with Alice Kahl and Steffen H. Wilsdorf).
literature
- Mühler, Kurt / Berger, Horst, Nekrolog auf Herbert F. Wolf (June 24, 1927 - May 15, 1993) . In: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 1993 (3), no. 3, pp. 431-433.
- Grätz, F., Wolf, Herbert F. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.), Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 2: Articles on sociologists who are alive or who have died after 1969, 2nd edition, Stuttgart 19984, p. 933– 934.
Web links
- Catalog of professors at the University of Leipzig: Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Herbert Franz Wolf , with a list of other publications.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig: Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Herbert Franz Wolf .
- ↑ Hansgünter Meyer , Sociology and Sociological Research in the GDR . In: Bernhard Schäfers (Ed.), Sociology in Germany. Development, institutionalization and professional fields, theoretical controversies . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, pp. 35-49, here p. 37.
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SURNAME | Wolf, Herbert Franz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rudelsdorf |
DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1993 |
Place of death | Leipzig |