Theodor Geiger

Theodor Geiger (1891 to 1952) was a German socialist, lawyer and sociologist who worked on the sociology of law, social stratification, social mobility, methodology and the intelligentsia. Born in Munich, he took a doctorate in law, became professor of sociology at Braunschweig in 1929, and emigrated to Denmark in 1933 because of his opposition to the Nazis. At Aarhus University from 1938 he was the first professor of sociology in Denmark. Geiger is regarded as a founder of the concept of social stratification as the analysis of society into many levels, he published Vorstudien zu einer Soziologie des Rechts in 1947, and in 1949 he was a co-founder of the International Sociological Association.