Alfred Vierkandt

Alfred Vierkandt (4 June 1867 – 24 April 1953) was a German sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher and philosopher of history. He is known for a broad and phenomenological Gesellschaftslehre promulgated in the 1920s, and for his formal (pure) sociology.

Vierkandt was born in Hamburg. He first studied mathematics, physics, geography, völkerpsychologie, and philosophy at Leipzig University and habilitated at Technische Hochschule Brunswick in geography. Moving his venia legendi to the University of Berlin he was made Dozent in ethnology, eventually becoming Professor of Sociology at the University of Berlin in 1913. Previously, Vierkandt had been one of the founders, in 1909, of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

The first German-language “Concise Dictionary of Sociology” was released in 1931 under Vierkandt's direction.

Upon his retirement in 1934 at the University of Berlin Vierkandt was barred from lecturing (Vorlesungsverbot), but took up his teaching there anew from 1945 or 1946. He was chairman of the Kant Society (Kant-Gesellschaft e. V. Halle ) from 1945.

Alfred Vierkandt died, aged 85, in Berlin.

The Social Science Archive Konstanz as part of the Communication, Information and Media Center (KIM) of the University of Konstanz holds a number of his papers and materials.

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