ABSTRACT
Max Weber (1864-1920), the son of an influential member of the Reichstag and an activist Protestant mother, came to maturity in Berlin in an intellectually lively home frequently visited by the Bismarckian era’s leading politicians and intellectuals. After receiving an outstanding secondary education in languages, history, and the classics, he studied law, economics, history, and philosophy in Heidelberg, Strasbourg, Berlin, and Göttingen.
