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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:31.325Z

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description: "He traced the invisible wiring between Protestant guilt and capitalist ambition, argued that states are just whoever holds the monopoly on violence, and gave modernity a name for what it lost: enchantment. Weber built the tools sociology still uses to read power."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Erfurt in 1864, Weber studied law and history across Berlin, Göttingen, and Heidelberg, earning his doctorate in 1889 and beginning to teach. After his father died following an argument in 1897, he broke down, stopped teaching, and travelled for years. He recovered and wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, linking Protestant work ethic to the rise of modern capitalism, then examined religion's economic role in China, India, and ancient Judaism. During the First World War he moved from support to criticism, co-founded the German Democratic Party afterward, advised the Weimar Constitution, and delivered his lectures on science and politics as vocations. He resumed teaching in Vienna and Munich but died of pneumonia in 1920 at fifty-six, leaving Economy and Society unfinished.