Lutz Kaelber

Lutz Kaelber is a sociologist at the University of Vermont, USA, who specialises in comparative historical sociology. He is the author of Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organisation in Medieval Religious Communities (1998), the translator of Max Weber’s History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages (2003), and co-editor of The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis (2005). His current research is on commemorative practices at sites of ‘Euthanasia’ crimes in Nazi Germany, with a focus on the ‘special children’s wards’ (Kinderfachabteilungen).