Sombart's Life and His First Study
Sombart was born in 1863 in Ermsleben in Prussia.He studied political economy (Staatswissenschaften), history and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Pisa and Rome. His dissertation, supervised by Schmoller, the heir of the younger historical school, was on tenancy and labour relations in the Roman campagna.His father Ludwig made a career and become a sugar industrialist who bought a manor to realize agrarian ideal of inner colonization.He surely influenced Sombart the choice of his Ph.D. thesis. He was a co-founder of the Verein fir Socialpolitik and member of the Reichstag, Werner became the Verein's after 1932 and was engaged in com and the policy in Breslau, W. Sombart was a later child and the atmosphere in his father's house was liberal and upper middle class. From 1888 to 1890, Werner was syndic at the Board of Trade in Bremen.