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Renate Mayntz

German sociologist · Germany · On the map · Academics · Born 1929 · age 97

Renate Mayntz, also known as Renate Mayntz-Trier, is a German sociologist and a pioneer of organizational sociology in Germany. She was the director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies from 1985 to 1997, and is now director emerita.

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2011Order of Merit of North Rhine-WestphaliaAward2008Ernst Hellmut Vits AwardAward2004Bielefeld Science PrizeAward1999Schader AwardAward1979Honorary Doctorate of Paris Nanterre UniversityAward1929Born28 April 1929

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