Background
Werner Sombart was born on 19 January 1863, at Ermsleben. His father was a prosperous landowner and a member of the Prussian Diet and of the Reichstag.
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Das Proletariat: Bilder und Studien (German Edition)
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Why is there no Socialism in the United States?
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The Jews and Modern Capitalism
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Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century
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Werner Sombart
Werner Sombart was a German economist and sociologist.
Education
Young Sombart was educated at Pisa and the University of Berlin, where he studied under Adolf Wagner and Gustav von Schmoller. He received a doctorate in 1888.
Career
Werner Sombart became secretary of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce. In 1890 he became extraordinary professor of economics at the University of Breslau, where he remained until 1905. His radical views on social and economic reform did not please the Prussian government, and in spite of his outstanding performance as a scholar and a teacher he was given no promotion while he remained at Breslau.
In 1905 Sombart was named to a chair at the Handel-shochschule (Commercial College) in Berlin. In 1917 he succeeded Wagner as professor of economics at the University of Berlin, where he remained until his retirement in 1931. Sombart died in Berlin on May 13, 1941.
Sombart's early publications were on trade unionism and socialism, both of which he looked upon favorably. But his Socialism and the Social Movement is a good example of the shift in his viewpoint. The first nine editions were sympathetic to socialism, but the tenth was a bitter attack on Marxism and Soviet socialism. The last (1934) edition was a thinly disguised apology for the Nazi system.
Sombart's work on the history of capitalism is spread over a large number of volumes, beginning with his classic Der Moderne Kapitalismus (1902-1927; Modern Capitalism) and includes a number of ancillary studies of which The Jews and Modern Capitalism (1911; trans. 1913) is probably the best known.
His approach is the very antithesis of that of Marx. Instead of presenting history as the resolution of a universal law, Sombart presents it as the outcome of unique social forms and forces. Whereas Marx would stress the role of the material in establishing the ethos of an age, Sombart explains material developments as the result of the ethos, for instance, the role of Judaism in the development of capitalism.
Although the detailed accuracy of much of Sombart's work may be, and in fact has been, questioned, his overall conception of the history of modern capitalism is widely accepted among economic historians.
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Werner Sombart is known for his work in two fields: socialism and capitalism. He began as an admirer of Marxian socialism and ended as its bitter critic. Several of his works on the history of capitalism are regarded as classics in spite of many errors of fact.
He was the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Sozialismus und Soziale Bewegung (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
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Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century
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Die zukunft der Juden (German Edition)
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Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, 1908, Vol. 26 (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
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Das Proletariat: Bilder und Studien (German Edition)
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Warum Gibt Es in Den Vereinigten Staaten Keinen Sozialismus? (German Edition)
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Why is there no Socialism in the United States?
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A New Social Philosophy
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The Jews and Modern Capitalism
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Sozialismus und Soziale Bewegung (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
Politics
In his early years Sombart was an admirer and friendly critic of Karl Marx and Marxism, and even after he had swung to the extreme right and had become a bitter if not vitriolic critic of Marx, he spoke at times of his own work as a continuation and completion of Marx's.
During the Weimar Republic, Sombart moved toward nationalism.
Membership
The Archives for Social Science and Social Welfare, the Historical School
References
- Festgabe für Werner Sombart zur siebenzigsten Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages 19. Jänner 1933
- Werner Sombart (1863-1941): Social Scientist (German Edition)
- Werner Sombart: Historiker und Theoretiker des modernen Kapitalismus (German Edition)
- Werner Sombart, 1863-1941: Eine Biographie (German Edition)
- Werner Sombart
