When was Georg Simmel born and where did he enter the world?
Georg Simmel entered the world on the 1st of March 1858 in Berlin, Germany. He was the youngest child among seven siblings born to an assimilated Jewish family.
Georg Simmel entered the world on the 1st of March 1858 in Berlin, Germany. He was the youngest child among seven siblings born to an assimilated Jewish family.
Financial independence from his guardian Julius Friedländer enabled him to continue intellectual work outside traditional academic structures. Applications for vacant chairs at German universities failed even though Max Weber supported them due to anti-Semitism and dismissive judgments about articles written for general audiences rather than academic sociologists.
The year 1909 marked a pivotal moment when Georg Simmel co-founded the German Society for Sociology alongside Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber. He served as a member of its first executive body during these formative years.
The essay titled The Metropolis and Mental Life appeared in 1903 during lectures given alongside the Dresden cities exhibition. The work influenced Robert E. Park and other American sociologists at the University of Chicago known as the Chicago School during the 1920s.
Georg Simmel published The Philosophy of Money in 1900 examining money as a component helping understand life's totality. He argued people created value by making objects then separating themselves from those objects before overcoming distance.