1. Ulrich Beck was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime.
15 Facts About Ulrich Beck
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Ulrich Beck tried to overturn national perspectives that predominated in sociological investigations with a cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the interconnectedness of the modern world.
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Ulrich Beck was a professor at the University of Munich and held appointments at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, and at the London School of Economics.
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Ulrich Beck began university studies with a focus on law at Freiburg, and from 1966 onwards studied sociology, philosophy, psychology and political science at the University of Munich.
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Ulrich Beck received appointments as professor at the universities of Munster and Bamberg.
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From 1992 until his death, Ulrich Beck was professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Munich.
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Ulrich Beck received numerous international awards and honors, including election to the Council and Executive Board of the German Society for Sociology.
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From 1999 to 2009 Ulrich Beck was a spokesman of the Collaborative Reflexive Modernization Research Centre 536, an interdisciplinary consortium of four universities in the Munich area funded and overseen by the German Research Foundation.
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Ulrich Beck was active as sociologist and public intellectual in Germany and throughout the world, regularly intervening in debates on the European Union, climate change and nuclear energy.
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Ulrich Beck was a member of the Board of Trustees at the Jewish Center in Munich and a member of the German branch of PEN International.
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Ulrich Beck was married to the German social scientist Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim.
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Ulrich Beck died of a myocardial infarction on 1 January 2015, at the age of 70.
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Ulrich Beck contributed a number of new words to German and anglophone sociology, including "risk society", "second modernity", reflexive modernization and Brazilianization.
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Ulrich Beck was the editor of the sociological journal, Soziale Welt, author of some 150 articles, and author or editor of many books.
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On 15 September 2010, Ulrich Beck supported the European Parliament's Spinelli Group initiative to reinvigorate federalism in the European Union.