Guenther Roth

Guenther Roth (German spelling Günther Roth; 12 January 1931 – 18 May 2019) was a German-American sociologist. He was recognized as the leading scholar, translator and editor of the work of Max Weber in the English-speaking world; together with Claus Wittich, he translated and edited the first complete version of Weber's classic ''Economy and Society'' in English. He was professor emeritus at Columbia University. Later, his research interest extended to the biographical aspects of the sociological classics, in particular the genealogy of Weber's family.

Roth studied at Goethe University Frankfurt under Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock and worked at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. He arrived in the United States in 1953 and completed his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1960, he obtained a PhD under Reinhard Bendix with a dissertation on the development of social democracy in Imperial Germany (1871–1918).

Roth became a U.S. citizen in 1963. He taught at the University of Washington from 1970 until 1988 and then at Columbia University until his retirement in 1997.

He was married to Columbia historian Caroline Bynum.

He died on May 18, 2019. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Max Weber's vision of history : ethics and methods / by Roth, Guenther, 1931-2019

    Published 1979
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    Scholarship and partisanship : essays on Max Weber / by Bendix, Reinhard

    Published 1971
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    Economy and society : an outline of interpretive sociology / by Weber, Max, 1864-1920

    Published 2013
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    Economy and society : an outline of interpretive sociology / by Weber, Max, 1864-1920

    Published 1978
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    Weber's Protestant ethic : origins, evidence, contexts /

    Published 1993
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    Economy and society : an outline of interpretive sociology / by Weber, Max, 1864-1920

    Published 2013
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