Max Weber, a famous German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist, was born in 1864 in Erfurt, Thuringia. He was born in a family of a wealthy civil servant who held very strong moral absolutist ideas. From a very young age, Weber was exposed to a company of scholars, politicians and public figures. Such exposure had a very strong impact on a formation of his future views and opinions. In fact, his first Christmas presents to his parents were two historical essays called "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" which he wrote at the age of thirteen. Starting from 1882, Max Weber was enrolled as a student in the University of Heidelberg studying law. Shortly, he transferred to University of Berlin. In 1889, he wrote a dissertation on legal history called “Development of the Principle of Joint Liability and the Separate Fund in the Public Trading Company out of Household and Trade Communities in Italian Cities” and earned his law doctorate degree. After completing his HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation" \o "Habilitation" Habilitationsschrift , HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_R%C3%B6mische_Agrargeschichte_in_ihrer _Bedeutung_f%C3%BCr_das_Staats-_und_Privatrecht" \o "Die Römische Agrargeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht" The Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law and becoming a Privatdozet, he joined the faculty of University of Berlin and started to lecture and provide consultations for the government.
When completing his dissertation and habilitation, Weber decided to join a professional association of German economists in 1888. This organization was affiliated with the historical school that found it extremely important for the social well-being of any country to have a stable economy. His famous work of the time was a research study about an influx of Polish farmers to Eastern Germany. It attracted a serious public attention and was entitled as controversial. In support of his work, Weber joined an organization called Pan-German League which was against a migration of Polish workers to Germany. At that time, he wrote his infamous lecture called "The Nation State and Economic Policy" which described the negative aspect of the immigration of Poles blaming them for serving selfish interests.
In 1986, after getting married and moving with his new family to Freiburg, Max Weber began to teach at the local university and quickly managed to group intellectuals around him and created a so-called “Weber Circle”. He still continued his research activity in Economics and History at the time. However, after the death of his father, he began a long struggle with insomnia and depression which made him reduce his teaching and research hours and eventually move to Italy for treatment. Later on, it became publicly known that Max Weber was battling a mental illness which eventually caused a temporary split from his wife.
In 1903, he resigned his professorship and started to work as an editor for HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archiv_f%C3%BCr_Sozialwissenschaft_und_Soz ialpolitik" \o "Archiv für …