René König

René König (5 July 1906 – 21 March 1992) was a German

sociologist

. He was very influential on West German sociology after 1949.

Born in

Cologne University, where he built up what was to be known later as the "Cologne School" (Kölner Schule) and established the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. He never left this university, in spite of several calls, and became Professor Emeritus in 1974, dying at Cologne

1992.

He never gave up cultural studies writing the first sociology of fashion, but at the same time he was a German pioneer of empirical methods, as against the ideological biases of many contemporal colleagues.

He played as well an important role in the International Sociological Association. He was the fifth president of ISA (1962-1966).^[1]

Besides, he was en engaged liberal writer and essayist, and translated the novelist Giovanni Verga from the Italian into German.

The René König Society (René-König-Gesellschaft) is publishing a complete edition of his writings.

References

^ "ISA Presidents". International Sociological Association. Retrieved 2012-07-25.

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