# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-kaesler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:49:32.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-kaesler"
name: "Dirk Kaesler"
slug: "dirk-kaesler"
description: "Dirk Kaesler is a German sociologist and Max Weber expert. Now retired, he was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg. Since October 2018 he is Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of Max Weber: An Introduction to his Life and Work, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1988. In 2014, he published Max Weber. Preusse, Denker, Muttersohn, which was a biography of Weber that focused on his complexities as a person."
tagline: "German sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dirk_Kaesler_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.63
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.828008000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.kaesler-soziologie.de/"
sources:
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    title: "ديرك كاسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Kaesler"
    title: "Dirk Kaesler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Kaesler"
    title: "Dirk Kaesler"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "دیرک کسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Kaesler"
    title: "Dirk Kaesler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump