Paul Barth was a German

Germany

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 sociological

Sociology

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 writer

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Biography

He edited the Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie (Quarterly Journal for Scholarly Philosophy), and was extraordinary professor in the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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. He wrote on philosophical subjects, but his Philosophie der Geschichte als Sociologie (Philosophy of History as Sociology), the first volume of which appeared in 1897, was the best historical sketch of the development of sociological theory which had been published in Germany. Among Barth's other writings were:

• Geschichtsphilosophie Hegels und die Hegelianer bis auf Marx und Hartmann (Hegel
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...
  
  's philosophy of history and the Hegelians up to Marx
  Karl Marx
  Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
  
   and Hartmann
  Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
  Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann , was a German philosopher.- Biography :He was born in Berlin, and educated with the intention of a military career. He entered the artillery of the Guards as an officer in 1860, but was forced to leave in 1865 because of a knee problem...
  
  ; 1890)
• Tiberius Gracchus
  Tiberius Gracchus
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  (2d ed., 1893)
• Beweggründen des sittlichen Handelns (Motives for ethical commerce; 1889)