Alfred von Martin

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Alfred von Martin (July 24, 1882 – June 11, 1979) was a German historian and sociologist and one of the last representatives of the founding years of German sociology to teach and publish in the Federal Republic of Germany. His diagnoses of the times are based on historical sociology and cultural sociology. Alfred von Martin published academic texts over a period of seventy years. Von Martin was first educated on the family estate by a private tutor, Dr. A. Schlemm, an expert in classical languages and antiquity, who played a vital role in von Martin's future interests in cultural history and the Renaissance. He transferred to the humanistically based high school in Görlitz for a few years before taking the final examinations. Von Martin studied History and numerous related subjects at the Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Berlin, Florence and Rome, which concluded with the reception of his PhD at the University of Freiburg in 1912. Provided by Wikipedia