{{Short description|German-American sociologist (1908–1978)}} '''Hans Heinrich Gerth''' (Kassel, April 24, 1908 – Frankfurt, December 29, 1978){{sfn|Locher|Evory|1979|p=194}} was a German–American sociologist.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/05/archives/hans-gerth-scholar-translated-max-weber.html | title=Hans Gerth, Scholar; Translated Max Weber | work=The New York Times | date=5 January 1979 }}</ref>
Gerth studied in Heidelberg under Karl Jaspers, Emil Lederer, Alfred Weber and especially Karl Mannheim. Later, Paul Tillich and Adolph Lowe were his academic teachers at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He spent the academic year 1929/30 at the London School of Economics. After his doctorate in Frankfurt<ref>Ruth Meyer: ''Hans Gerth † (24.4.1908–29.12.1978).'' In: ''Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.'' 32. Jahrgang, 1980, S. 195.</ref> in 1933, he became a research assistant to Rudolf Heberle at the University of Kiel. He then worked as a journalist until 1937, including as Berlin correspondent for the ''Chicago Daily News''. Gerth emigrated to the United States via Great Britain in 1938. There he initially encountered the mistrust of emigrants who had already left Germany in 1933. According to a phrase he coined himself, he was the prototype of the "Aryan latecomer" in exile.<ref>Robert Jackall in der Einleitung zu: Hans Speier: ''Die Intellektuellen und die moderne Gesellschaft.'' Nausner & Nausner, Graz/Wien 2007, ISBN 978-3-901402-41-8, S. 11–34, hier S. 17, Anm. 13.</ref>
Until 1940, he taught sociology as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, then also as an assistant professor and from 1947 as a professor at the University of Wisconsin. During these years he devoted himself intensively to translating the works of Max Weber. In the United States, Gerth worked closely with C. Wright Mills, who had initially been his student. In 1971 he returned to Germany, where he was professor of sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt until 1975.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}}
He developed a close collaboration with the sociologist Mills.{{sfn|Gerth|1993|p=133}} He was the author of works such as ''Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions'' (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953), together with Mills; {{sfn|Vidich|1955|pp=905-907}} or Bürgerliche Intelligenz um 1800: zur Soziologie des deutschen Frühliberalismus (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1976);{{sfn|Gerth|1976}} among others. He was also the translator and editor, also with Mills, of ''From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology'' (Oxford University Press, 1946), texts by Max Weber.{{sfn|Jenks|1948|pp=69-71}}{{sfn|Thorne|1946|pp=188-191}}{{sfn|Weber|1946}}
The following have been written about his life: ''The Monologue: Hans Gerth (1908–1978): A Memoir'' (Intercontinental Press, 1982), by Don Martindale;{{sfn|Gross|1985|pp=90-92}} and ''Collaboration, Reputation and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), by Guy Oakes and Arthur J. Vidich.{{sfn|Nielsen|2000|pp=649-661}}
== References == {{reflist|3}}
== General and cited sources == * {{cite book|year=1976 |first=Hans |language=de |last=Gerth |location=Göttingen |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |title=Bürgerliche Intelligenz um 1800: zur Soziologie des deutschen Frühliberalismus |url=http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb00052463_00001.html}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --> * {{Cite journal |last=Gerth |first=Nobuko |year=1993 |title=Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills: Partnership and Partisanship |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_international-journal-of-politics-culture-and-society_fall-1993_7_1/page/133 |journal=International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society |language=en |publisher=Springer |volume=7 |pages=133–154 |issn=1573-3416 |jstor=20007127 |issue=1 |doi=10.1007/BF02142352 }} * {{Cite journal |last=Gross |first=Feliks |year=1985 |title=The Monologue: Hans Gerth (1908-1978): A Memoir by Don Martindale |journal=International Social Science Review |language=en |publisher=Pi Gamma Mu, International Honor Society in Social Sciences |volume=60 |pages=90–92 |issn=2332-0419 |jstor=41881654 |issue=3}} * {{Cite journal |last=Jenks |first=Leland H. |date=May 1948 |title=From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. by H. H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills; Max Weber: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. by A. M. Henderson, Talcott Parson |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-economic-history_1948-05_8_1/page/69 |journal=The Journal of Economic History |language=en |publisher=Cambridge University Press / Economic History Association |volume=8 |pages=69–71 |issn=1471-6372 |jstor=2112951 |issue=1 |doi=10.1017/S0022050700053857 }} * {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/contemporaryauth81-84fran |title=Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and Their Works. Ed. Frances Carol Locher, Volúmenes 81-84 |publisher=Gale Research Company |year=1979 |isbn=9780810300460 |editor-last=Locher |editor-first=Frances Carol |language=en |editor-last2=Evory |editor-first2=Ann}} * {{Cite journal |last=Nielsen |first=Donald A. |year=2000 |title=Hans H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills, and the Legacy of Max Weber. Collaboration, Reputation and Ethics in American Academic Life: Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills by Guy Oakes, Arthur J. Vidich |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_international-journal-of-politics-culture-and-society_summer-2000_13_4/page/649 |journal=International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society |language=en |publisher=Springer |volume=13 |pages=649–661 |issn=1573-3416 |jstor=20020053 |issue=4 |doi=10.1023/A:1022975124672 }} * {{Cite journal|title=From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by H. H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills|first=S. E.|last=Thorne|journal=The Yale Law Journal|volume=56|issue=1|date=November 1946|language=en|pages=188–191|publisher=Yale Law Journal Company, Inc.|doi=10.2307/793261|jstor=793261|issn=0044-0094}} * {{Cite journal |last=Vidich |first=Arthur J. |date=August 1955 |title=Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions. Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1955.57.4.02a00420/pdf |journal=American Anthropologist |language=en |volume=57 |pages=905–907 |doi=10.1525/aa.1955.57.4.02a00420 |issn=0002-7294 |issue=4|url-access=subscription }} * {{cite book |title =From Max Weber: Essays in sociology|first=Max|last=Weber | author-link =Max Weber| editor1-last = Gerth | editor1-first = H. H. | editor2-last =Mills | editor2-first =C. Wright|editor2-link =C. Wright Mills|year=1946|location=New York|publisher = Oxford University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/frommaxweberessa00webe}}
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