Cultural Studies
Max Weber
Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe
Band I/1: Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter. Schriften 1889–1894
Hrsg. v. Gerhard Dilcher u. Susanne Lepsius
[The History of the Medieval Commercial Partnerships. Writings 1889–1894.]
unrevised e-Book edition 2019; Original edition 2008; 2008. XVIII, 661 pages.
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Published in German.
As a student of Levin Goldschmidt, the founder of modern commercial law, Max Weber established the origins of commercial partnerships in the legal practice of medieval Italian cities in his doctoral thesis of 1889. In this, Weber was influenced decisively by the late phase of the historical school of law. With this first work, he laid the foundations for his later works, for which he was to become famous as a political economist, a sociologist, an economic historian and a philosopher of science. This edition documents Weber's scientific beginnings and provides a contribution to the image of legal science at the end of the 19th century. In addition, the subject bibliography makes a direct connection to the history of commercial law, which had been neglected for a long time.