Carl Brinkmann

Carl Brinkmann (1885 to 1954) was a German sociologist and economist who focused on socioeconomics and the history of political economy. He was born in Tilsit in East Prussia, now in the Kaliningrad region, and died in Oberstdorf in the Allgau. In 1904 he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The Queens College, Oxford. He later held professorships at Heidelberg University from 1923, at Berlin University from 1942 and at Tubingen University from 1946. His published works include Weltpolitik und Weltwirtschaft im 19. Jahrhundert (1921), Englische Geschichte 1815 to 1914, Wirtschaftsformen und Lebensformen (1944), Soziologische Theorie der Revolution (1948) and Wirtschaftstheorie (1948), titles that show how he linked economic forms to ways of life and to the sociology of revolution.