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sociologist

Alfred Vierkandt was a German sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher and philosopher of history.

Background

Vierkandt was born in Hamburg.

Education

He first studied science and philosophy at Leipzig University.

Career

He is known for a broad and phenomenological Gesellschaftslehre promulgated in the 1920s, and for his formal sociology. He habilitated at Brunswick. He was first at Dozent in ethnology, becoming eventually in 1913 Professor of Sociology at the University of Berlin.

He was one of the founders of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, in 1909.

He was made to retire in 1934. He died, aged 85, in Berlin.