Lars Clausen


Lars Michael Clausen was a German sociologist and professor at the University of Kiel.

Life and work

During World War II, the family lived on the Darß. 1944 his father Jürgen Clausen, a movie producer, was killed in action; his mother Rosemarie Clausen, a famous photographer, fled with her three children 1945 to Hamburg, where Lars Clausen attended the Christianeum. 1955, he took up Business, Economics, Sociology, and History at the universities of Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg. 1960, he took his first degree in business in Hamburg. He got both his doctorate and post-doctoral degree at the University of Münster in sociology, having done field work in Zambian industries, 1964—65. After academic teaching in Münster, Bielefeld, and The Hague, he was called 1970 to the chair of Sociology at Kiel University.
He specialized in the sociology of culture, of labor, and of disaster, and is chief editor of the Complete Works of Ferdinand Tönnies.
1993 to 1994, Clausen was Chairman of the German Society for Sociology. He served as well as President of the German Africa Society and as Chairman of the Schutzkommission of the German Ministry of Interior, 2003—2009. Since 1978, he was President of the Ferdinand Tönnies Society.

Awards

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Monographs and papers