Dirk Kaesler

Dirk Kaesler (born in Wiesbaden on 19 October 1944 as Dirk Käsler) is a German sociologist and Max Weber expert. Now retired, he was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg.^[1] Since October 2018 he is Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of Max Weber: An Introduction to his Life and Work, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1988.^[2] In 2014, he published Max Weber. Preusse, Denker, Muttersohn, which was a biography of Weber that focused on his complexities as a person.^[3]