![]() ![]() The following year, he recovered sufficiently to write what would become his most celebrated work and one of the founding texts of the emergent discipline of sociology, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.” By October, 1903, he had given up teaching altogether apparently, the idea of having to prepare lectures and deliver them at a predetermined time was more than he could bear. Following his breakdown, according to his wife, Marianne, who also happened to be his cousin, “everything was too much for him he could not read, write, talk, walk or sleep without torment.” A slight improvement in his condition was followed by a relapse, another improvement, and then an even more serious breakdown. ![]() Over the previous decade, routinely working until 1 a.m., he had assembled a list of publications that filled several pages and ranged from the agrarian history of Rome to the deficiencies of the German stock market. ![]() He was thirty-three years old-still quite young, in the rigidly hierarchical world of German academia-and occupied a prestigious chair in political economics at the University of Heidelberg. In the fall of 1897, Max Weber suffered a nervous breakdown. ![]()
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