Hans Henrik Eduard Reventlow Bruun (born 1943) is a
Danish sociologist and
diplomat
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. He is an MA in
political science
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(cand.scient.pol.) from
University of Aarhus
Aarhus University (, abbreviated AU) is a public research university. Its main campus is located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Utr ...
. Through nearly thirty years, he served in the
Danish diplomatic mission
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. From 1987
ambassador
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to
Turkey
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, from 1999 to
France
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. After his retirement from the
foreign service Foreign Service may refer to:
* Diplomatic service, the body of diplomats and foreign policy officers maintained by the government of a country
* United States Foreign Service, the diplomatic service of the United States government
**Foreign Service ...
, he joined the staff at the
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
...
Institute for Sociology as an
adjunct professor
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. In his academic field, he is an expert on the
philosophy
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of
Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (; ; 21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German Sociology, sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economy, political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sc ...
.
[Bruun, Hans Henrik (2007]
Science, values, and politics in Max Weber's methodology
Aldershot, Ashgate, 298 pp. Series: Rethinking classical sociology
References
1943 births
Living people
Danish sociologists
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
Aarhus University alumni
Reventlow family
Max Weber scholars
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