Weber's opinions regarding the methodology of the social sciences show parallels with the work of contemporary neo-Kantian philosopher and pioneering sociologist Georg Simmel.

" Another major influence in Weber's life were the writings of Karl Marx and the workings of socialist thought in academia and active politics.

* The Wild Hunt is mentioned as one of the seven spectres during the casting of the magic bullets in Karl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz.

The essay can also be interpreted as one of Weber's criticisms of Karl Marx and his theories.

Most known examples are the theory of Karl Marx and Max Weber's three-component theory of stratification.

Weber's ordeal with mental illness was carefully described in a personal chronology that was destroyed by his wife.

Many scholars have described rationalisation and the question of individual freedom in an increasingly rational society, as the main theme of Weber's work.

" Weber's argument can be understood as an attempt to deepen the understanding of the cultural origins of capitalism, which does not exclude the historical materialist origins described by Marx.

Weber's thought regarding the rationalizing and secularizing tendencies of modern Western society ( sometimes described as the " Weber Thesis ") would blend with Marxism to facilitate critical theory, particularly in the work of thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas.

Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Schnitger, later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumental in collecting and publishing Weber's journal articles as books after his death and her biography of him is an important source for understanding Weber's life.

Weber's premature death in 1920 prevented him from following his planned analysis of Psalms, the Book of Job, Talmudic Jewry, early Christianity and Islam.

Weber's preoccupation with the importance of economic calculation led him to develop a critique of socialism as a system that lacked a mechanism for allocating resources efficiently in order to satisfy human needs.

This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.

Weber's orchestration has also been highly praised and emulated by later generations of composers – Berlioz referred to him several times in his Treatise on Instrumentation while Debussy remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra was obtained through the scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.

Weber's father gave him a comprehensive education, which was however interrupted by the family's constant moves.

They did not ask for qualifications, certificates, or references, but instead only required him to show them his sketchbooks from the war, and a calligraphic piece he did in 1944 of Hans von Weber's " Junggesellentext ".

All four of Louis Spohr's clarinet concertos and several of his other clarinet works, as well as Carl Maria von Weber's Grand duo concertant, were written with Hermstedt's skills in mind and were dedicated to him.

A manuscript copy of the music was found among Weber's papers upon his death in 1826 and the work was mistakenly attributed to him.

Nevertheless, Weber's term survived in the sociological community, since his Idealtyp helped to understand social forces, and for him " sociology " had both to explain and to understand things – a daring combination, but successful in the eyes of many sociologists.

Weber's premature death in 1920 prevented him from following Ancient Judaism with his planned analysis of Psalms, Book of Jacob, Talmudic Jewry, early Christianity and Islam.

In October 2005, Cross was sued by Nashville club owner Thomas Weber, accusing Cross of taping him without permission for Let America Laugh, in violation of Weber's privacy rights.

Weber's 1876 Christmas presents to his parents, when he was thirteen years old, were two historical essays entitled " About the course of German history, with special reference to the positions of the Emperor and the Pope ," and " About the Roman Imperial period from Constantine to the migration of nations.

Weber's views on the war and the expansion of the German empire changed during the course of the conflict.

Weber's role in German politics remains controversial to this day.

Weber's thinking was strongly influenced by German idealism and particularly by neo-Kantianism, to which he had been exposed through Heinrich Rickert, his professorial colleague at the University of Freiburg.

But, even though Weber's research interests were very much in line with that school, his views on methodology and the theory of value diverged significantly from those of other German historicists and were closer, in fact, to those of Carl Menger and the Austrian School, the traditional rivals of the historical school.

Though his research interests were always in line with those of the German historicists, with a strong emphasis on interpreting economic history, Weber's defence of " methodological individualism " in the social sciences represented an important break with that school and an embracing of many of the arguments that had been made against the historicists by Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School of economics, in the context of the academic Methodenstreit (" debate over methods ") of the late 19th century.

Der Freischütz came to be regarded as the first German " nationalist " opera, Euryanthe developed the Leitmotif technique to a hitherto-unprecedented degree, while Oberon anticipated Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest in the music of non-Western cultures.

Cover of the original German edition of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Wolfgang Weber's last minute goal took the game into extra time, a goal claimed to be controversial by the English, with the ball appearing to hit the hand of a German player as it travelled through the England penalty area before he prodded it in.

However, " until the mid-20th century and the dissemination of the German sociologist Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy " there was not " much interest in a theory of public administration.

Weber's discussion of the relationships between status groups, social class, and political parties is found in his essay " Class, Status, Party " which was written in German before World War I.

It can be considered both as a forerunner of, and a challenge to, the rather better known concept of Max Weber's: the ideal type ( in German Idealtyp ).

Weber's career as a feminist public speaker ended abruptly in 1935, when Hitler dissolved the Federation of German Women's Organizations.

More than a historiographical synthesis of Ranke and Marx ( envisioned by some German historians after the catastrophe of World War I ), Wehler's work incorporates Max Weber's concepts of authority, economy, and culture and strives toward a concept of " total history.

Benedict wrote recitatives for the production of an Italian-language version of Weber's Oberon in 1860 ( it was then the tradition in England to perform German operas in Italian ).

A 2010 biography by Stanford Franklin, " Eugen Weber The Greatest Historian of our Times: Lessons of Greatness to the Future " presents Weber's life and works in positive terms.

In the same year, following the death of Carl Maria von Weber, Weber's widow asked Meyerbeer to complete her husband's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos.

This is part of a monumental work that was interrupted by Weber's death.

Hoen and his brothers Henry and Ernest took over the E. Weber Company in the mid 1850s upon Edward Weber's death.

This section was left uncompleted at Weber's death in 1920.