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Seminar "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"

Department of Historical Sociology cordially invites you to attend a seminar presented by prof. em. Dr. Dirk Kaesler: The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

Dirk Kaesler was Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg (1984-1995) and of Marburg (1995-2009). He has held visiting professorships at the University of Chicago, the University of Köln, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, the Indiana University Bloomington, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the Humboldt-University Berlin, the University of München, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Graz. He served as President of the “Research Committee on the History of Sociology” of the “International Sociological Association” (1989-2002) and as member of the Executive Council of the “German Sociological Society”(2002-2005). His main research interests cover theories of sociology, history of sociology and Max Weber-research. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles. [http://www.kaesler-soziologie.de]