Guenther Roth

Life

Guenther Roth grew up in Darmstadt, where he attended the Ludwig- George's High School. He sat the sociology studies, which he had begun in 1951 in Frankfurt am Main at the Institute for Social Research at Max Horkheimer and Pollock, in the fall of 1953 in the U.S. continues, first with Kurt Heinrich Wolff at Ohio State University. At the New School of Social Research in New York he met the remaining German emigrants in the United States as Alfred Schutz, Albert Salomon and Otto Kirchheimer. In Reinhard Bendix in 1955, he received a job as a research assistant at the Institute for Industrial Relations at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in 1960 on the German Social Democracy in the Empire. Through its made ​​with Claus Wittich translation of Max Weber's Economy and Society into English, he was responsible for the in-depth Max Weber reception worldwide. According to a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, he had until 1997 held a chair at Columbia University.

He is married to the historian Caroline Walker Bynum.

Writings (selection )

• The Social Democrats in Imperial Germany; a study in working-class isolation and national integration, Totowa: Bedminster Press 1963
• Max Weber's German - English family history 1800-1950: with letters and documents, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001 ISBN 3-16-147557-7
• Political rule and personal liberty: Heidelberg Max Weber Lectures 1983, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1987 ISBN 3-518-28280-8. This autobiographical: Political generational experience and intellectual interest: Essay on a German -American career.
• Wolfgang Schluchter, Max Weber 's vision of history: ethics and methods, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979
• Max Weber, Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.