the 37th president of the American Sociological Association (1947).

Early life

Louis Wirth was born in the small village of Gemünden in the Hunsrück, Germany. He was one of seven children born to Rosalie Lorig (1868-1948, from Butzweiler/Eifel) and Joseph Wirth. Gemünden was a pastoral community,

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