Leipzig school (sociology)

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The Leipzig school was a branch of

University of Leipzig, Germany
in the 1930s.

Freyer saw Nazism as an opportunity; many of his followers were politically active Nazis. They included Arnold Gehlen, Gunter Ipsen, Heinz Maus, Karl Heinz Pfeffer, and Helmut Schelsky.

The

Third Reich (Gehlen, Ipsen, Pfeffer), and before the war ended, Freyer himself left to take up a teaching position at the University of Budapest
.

In Indo-Germanic studies, the Leipzig School also refers to the researchers around Karl Brugmann and August Leskien in the last third of the 19th century, who were called Junggrammatists.[1]

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Further reading

  • Bernhard, Peter (2019). "The Leipzig School in Dessau". In Thormann, Olaf (ed.). Bauhaus Saxony. Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst. pp. 365–370. .
  • Freyer/Gehlen/Schelsky (Die Leipziger Schule), article by Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, in Klassiker der Soziologie Bd.2, Beck´sche Reihe 1999. Published by Dirk Kaesler.
  • Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert (2001). Soziologische Denktraditionen. .

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