Rudolf Stichweh
Rudolf Stichweh (born August 26, 1951 in Lemgo , Lippe ) is a German sociologist . He was a student of Niklas Luhmann and later his immediate professorial successor.
Live and act
Stichweh studied sociology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Bielefeld , where with a thesis on the origin of he Physics as a scientific discipline Dr. rer. soc. PhD . He obtained his habilitation at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University in 1990 with research work on the connection between state formation and university development in early modern Europe .
From 1985 to 1989 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne ; 1987 at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris ; from 1989 to 1994 at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt / M. From 1994 to 2003 he was Professor of Sociological Theory and General Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University ; 1999–2001 he was dean of this faculty; in the spring of 2000 visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris; in winter 2001/2 at the University of Vienna ; From winter 2003 to summer 2012 he was Professor of Sociological Theory and General Sociology at the University of Lucerne , and from October 1, 2006 to July 31, 2010 also Rector of the University of Lucerne. He was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin from October 2005 to July 2006 . In spring 2011 he received a visiting professorship at Princeton University. Since August 1, 2012 he has been Dahrendorf Professor of 'Theory of Modern Society' and Director of the 'Forum Internationale Wissenschaft' at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the same time he is a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne. In 2014 he was elected a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . In spring 2017 he was visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. In 2017 Rudolf Stichweh was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Rudolf Stichweh's main research areas are:
- Sociological theory
 - Systems theory
 - World Society Theory
 - Sociology of the foreign
 - Sociology of Science and Universities
 - Socio-cultural evolution
 - Comparative Sociology of Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems
 - Historical macro-sociology
 - Inclusion and exclusion
 
Fonts (selection)
- On the emergence of the modern system of scientific disciplines . Frankfurt a. M. 1984.
 - The early modern state and the European university. Frankfurt a. M. 1991.
 - Études sur la genèse du système scientifique moderne. Lille 1991.
 - Science, university, professions . Frankfurt a. M. 1994, new edition Bielefeld 2013.
 - The world society. Sociological Analysis. Frankfurt a. M. 2000.
 - Inclusion and exclusion . Bielefeld 2005, 2nd expanded edition, Bielefeld 2016.
 - The Stranger: Studies in Sociology and Social History , Frankfurt a. M. 2010.
 
literature
- Jürgen Kaube / Johannes FKSchmidt (ed.): The reality of the university: Rudolf Stichweh for his 60th birthday . Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8282-0560-4
 
See also
Web links
- Stichweh page (University of Lucerne)
 - Access to Rudolf Stichweh's complete list of publications (PDF file; 113 kB)
 - Download list of papers
 - Literature by and about Rudolf Stichweh in the catalog of the German National Library
 
Individual evidence
- ↑ North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts accepts 17 new members. Press release from May 22nd, 2014 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de)
 - ^ Member entry of Rudolf Stichweh at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 12, 2017.
 
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stabweh, Rudolf | 
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist | 
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1951 | 
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lemgo , Lippe |