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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Georg Simmel was born 1 March 1858 in Germany and became a philosopher and sociologist who rejected the positivist mainstream. His neo-Kantian method analyzed social life as shifting "forms" and "contents" — a pattern could be structure in one context, substance in another — prefiguring structuralism decades early. He wrote "The Metropolis and Mental Life," laying ground for urban sociology, symbolic interactionism, and social network analysis. An acquaintance of Max Weber, he covered emotion, romantic love, and the fragmentation of the individual with the same rigor others reserved for institutions. Both men's nonpositivist work fed the Frankfurt School's critical theory. Simmel died 26 September 1918, having built a sociology that treated feeling and form as equal weights on the same scale.