Max Weber Max Webwe was born April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia [Germany]—died June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany. German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating Protestantism to capitalism

Max Weber

(Max Webwe was born April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia [Germany]—died June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany. German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy. Weber’s profound influence on sociological theory stems from his demand for objectivity in scholarship and from his analysis of the motives behind human action.