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Niklas Luhmann
German sociologist (1927–1998)
Niklas Luhmann (; German:[ˈluːman]; December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory.[2]
Biography
Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Free State of Prussia, where his father's family had been running a brewery for several generations.
He entered the Gymnasium Johanneum at Luneburg in 1937.[3] In 1943, he was conscripted as a Luftwaffenhelfer in World War II and served for two years until, at the age of 17, he was taken prisoner of war by American troops in 1945.[4] After the war Luhmann studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1946 to 1949, where he obtained a law degree, and then began a career in Lüneburg's public administration.
During a sabbatical in 1961, he went to Harvard, where he met and studied under Talcott Parsons, then the world's most influential social systems theorist.
In later days, L