# Weber delivers a St. Louis congress paper and travels the United States

Date: 1904

## The fact

In 1904 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber) travelled to the United States, spoke at the St. Louis congress of arts and sciences on rural society, and saw sects, cities, and campuses that entered the Protestant Ethic’s second instalment and later essays. Marianne Weber’s travel notes share the file. It is comparative teaching, not an immigration law.

Louis congress paper and travels the United States (1904-09-20).

## Context

Recovery from illness made the ocean trip a gamble and a laboratory. German professors used world fairs as stages. Sharing the congress does not erase his paper. Indigenous and Black America are thinly seen in his pages; that thinness is not repaired here by invention. Do not treat later US sociology departments as this 1904 ticket.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber delivers a St. Louis congress paper and travels the United States. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1904-09-20 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ independently records the 1904 American journey in the ethic’s genesis. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Weber-German-sociologist independently dates the US trip beside the Archiv essays. The URLs differ.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Max Weber (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Education path, modest weight. High confidence on 1904 travel.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber travelled the US and spoke at St. Louis in 1904. Not established: a unique American data series he gathered as a census officer. Contribution is recorded as He spoke and travelled. Marianne accompanied; American hosts and the congress organised the stage. Complex. The impact note is A public American paper and journey fed comparative sociology, a modest education path, not a US statute. The dated heading stays Weber delivers a St. Louis congress paper and travels the United States on 1904-09-20, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. St. Louis 1904 is not the 1917 Munich lecture. Mixed effects of Weber delivers a St. Louis congress paper and travels the United States are separate paths.

The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Max Weber: https://factrail.ai/people/max-weber

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Weber-German-sociologist
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-st-louis-1904