Kurt Wolff

Education

After graduating in Darmstadt in 1932, Wolff began the philosophical and sociological studies in Frankfurt, where he attended lectures by Karl Mannheim, and later in Monaco of Bavaria.

Career

As a sociologist of knowledge he was also translator and divulger from German into English of many works by Georg Simmel and by Karl Mannheim. After a short stay in England, he went to the United States. where, in 1945, took United States. citizenship. With the help of a nephew in 1939, Wolff got a job as an assistant professor of sociology at the Southern Methodist University (Texas).

Four years later, in 1943, he was awarded a scholarship from the Social Science Research Council, which allowed him to study at the University of Chicago and to conduct field research in New Mexico.

The following year he was appointed as a professor of sociology at the Earlham College (Indiana), and in 1952 at Ohio State University. In 1959 he moved to Brandeis University where he taught until 1993.

From 1964, Wolff was a Sociological Abstracts Council member and a visiting professor for one year to the University of Freiburg (1966-1967). He was the first translator and divulger in English of Georg Simmel and Karl Mannheim.

From 1966 to 1972, Kurt H. Wolff was the Chairman of the Research Committee"s of Sociology of Knowledge of the International Sociological Association, and from 1972 to 1979 President of the "International Society for the Sociology of Knowledge".

In 1987 in Darmstadt, his hometown, he was honored with the Medal of Johann Heinrich Merck.

Works

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  • Versuch Zu Einer Wissenssoziologie (Soziologische Texte, Band 53) (German Edition)

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  • Trying Sociology by Kurt H. Wolff (1974-12-04)

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  • Versuch zu einer Wissenssoziologie
  • Transformation in the Writing: A Case of Surrender-And-Catch (1995) (Mathematics and Its Applications #166) By Wolff, Kurt H ( Author ) 1995 ) Hardcover

Membership

Wolff was also an honorary member of German Society for Sociology.