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notes active participation in the council parliament and administrative parliament of Berlin. Weber family
lived in Charlottenburg, which was on the boundary of western part of the then Berlin and where
the distinguished men of education and politics lived in neighbourhood. In this way Weber family
started living in a good atmosphere.
Max Weber’s mother, Helen Fallenstein Weber was an educated and generous natured and protestant
faith lady. In her family there we many educated men and small officers who, during the movement
of 1848, had started living in the city of Heidelberg. In Berlin, Helen Weber was an extremely busy
woman. Weber’s mother had to look after her busy politician husband, six children and continuously
visiting friend groups.
Max Weber was a weak child who at the age of four year had the disease of Meningitis. He, in
comparison to sports, liked reading books and in his childhood, though his deep studies, had attained
detailed knowledge. In the age of thirteen years he had written two historical essays whose name
are as follows:
1. “Concerning the course of general History with special regard to the positions of Kairer
and Pope”
2. “Dedicated to my own insignificant ego as well as to parents and siblings”
In the age of fifteen years he was studying as a student. From the beginning only he was habitual of
speaking balanced and desirable statements. In his class he was the student of the least age. He had
respect for the teachers also. Because during the examination period he used to be ready to impart
knowledge to his companions, they considered him to be a special work of nature.

Notes Weber’s mother used to read her son’s letters without his knowledge and was
very hurt with the fact that she and her son were becoming intellectually different
from each other.

Max Weber’s high school education ended in the year 1882. Because of being blessed with an unnatural
talent, he did not need more hard work. Like the most of the thinkers of the nineteenth century, he
had developed a hostile impact in the heart of his teachers. Seventeen year old weak child still did
not have due respect for the power.
Max Weber, following the footsteps of his father, went to Heidelberg and got admitted as a student
of law and started studying. He also studied many cultural subjects in which history, economics,
philosophy etc were also included.
At the age of 20, Weber received university education in Berlin and Gottingen. Where, after two years
he gave the first examination of law. In year 1885 summer, and again in 1887, he returned to Strasbourg
for military practice. Weber after completing his study started his job in the court of Berlin. In 1889 he
received the title of doctorate in the history of medieval trading companies and in 1891 he wrote an
essay on a topic named “history of Agrarian Institution”, which Marx had once called as the secret
history of the Roman people.
In the year 1893, after marriage to Marianne Schniger, Weber started living his life as a successful
scholar. In the end of the year 1894, he accepted the post of professor of economics in the Freworm
University. Here he met Hugo Musterberg, Paster Naumann and William Rickert.
Like the initial days of life, in rest of the days, he was eclipsed with weakness. He also travelled
America. He came to America in September 1904 and went to Germany a few days before Christmas.
He considered America to be an ideal society . The main centre of Weber’s beliefs and experiences

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