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Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf

On 7 November 1917 Max Weber lectured in Munich for the Freistudentischer Bund on Wissenschaft als Beruf, stating the limits of science as a salvation and the duty of value-neutrality in the lecture hall, in the third year of the war. It is not Politik als Beruf of January 1919. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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On 7 November 1917 Max Weber lectured in Munich for the Freistudentischer Bund on Wissenschaft als Beruf, stating the limits of science as a salvation and the duty of value-neutrality in the lecture hall, in the third year of the war. It is not Politik als Beruf of January 1919. Disenchantment is a theme, not a measured secularisation series.

Context

Students wanted prophets. Weber refused the lectern as a pulpit. Wartime Munich was hungry for meaning. The lecture is a cold answer. The Bund hosted. Sharing the invitation does not erase the speaker.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

High confidence on the 1917 date. Later weaponisation of value-neutrality in faculty fights is not this lecture automatically.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1917-11-07 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.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Max Weber

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He delivered the 7 November 1917 lecture. Freistudentischer Bund hosted; the 1919 print is a later carrier of the same talk, not a new act.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Sociologica — Weber’s Science as a Vocation: context and genesisSociologica / University of Bologna · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Wissenschaft als Beruf (1919 print of the 1917 lecture) — Internet ArchiveInternet Archive / Duncker & Humblot · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/max-weber-1919-wissenschaft-als-beruf (opens in a new tab) holds the 1919 print of the 1917 lecture. Sociologica at https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/8432 (opens in a new tab) independently reconstructs the 7 November 1917 genesis.

Established: Weber delivered Wissenschaft als Beruf on 7 November 1917 in Munich. Not established: that the 1919 print changed any enrolment series, or that 1917 is 1919 as a new act. Contribution is recorded as He delivered the 7 November 1917 lecture. Freistudentischer Bund hosted; the 1919 print is a later carrier of the same talk, not a new act. The impact note is A public lecture on science as vocation and value-neutrality is an education path, modest-to-mid weight, not a ministry circular. The dated heading stays Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf on 1917-11-07, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 7 November 1917 is not 28 January 1919. Mixed effects of Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMax Weber
  2. contributed toFactWeber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Weber delivers the Munich lecture Wissenschaft als Beruf. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-wissenschaft-1917

https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-wissenschaft-1917

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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