| LC control no. | n 79093286 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wolff, Kurt H., 1912-2003 |
| Variant(s) | Wolff, Kurt Heinrich, 1912-2003 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1912-05-20 |
| Death date | 2003-09-17 |
| Place of birth | Darmstadt (Germany) |
| Place of death | Newton (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Sociology |
| Profession or occupation | Sociologists College teachers Authors Editors Translators |
| Found in | Simmel, G. The sociology of Georg Simmel, 1950. Soziologie in der gefährdeten Welt, 1998: t.p. (Kurt H. Wolff) p. 119 (Kurt Heinrich Wolff; sociology professor b. 5/20/12) Wikipedia, 20 December 2018 (Kurt Heinrich Wolff (May 20, 1912, Darmstadt-September 14, 2003, Newton, Massachusetts) was a German-born American sociologist; A major contributor to the sociology of knowledge and to qualitative and phenomenological approaches in sociology; also translated from German and from French into English of the works of Georg Simmel and Karl Mannheim; in the 1940's, he initially discovered, and began to articulate and to advocate, a new qualitative methodological approach for the study of human society which he called "Surrender and Catch"; philosophical and sociological studies at the University of Frankfurt (1930-31 and 1932-33) and the University of Munich (1931-32); became a US citizen in 1945; thereafter he taught at a number of American colleges and universities) U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, 20 December 2018 (Kurt H. Wolff; last residence: Newton Lower Falls, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; born: 20 May 1912; died: 17 Sep 2003) |
| Associated language | eng |
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