Full Name: Max Ferdinand Scheler.
Known AS: Max Scheler.
Nickname: Didn't have a Nickname.

Father Name: Unknown (Lutheran).
Mother Name: Unknown (Orthodox Jewish).
Wife Name: Amalie von Dewitz (1st).
Wife Name: Märit Furtwängler (m. 1912).

Date of Birth: 22 August 1874.
Birth Place: Munich, Germany.

Date of Death: 19 May 1928 (aged 53).
Death Place: Frankfurt, Germany.
Cause of Death: Heart attack.
Remains: Buried, Suedfriedhof Cemetery, Cologne, Germany.

Gender: Male.
Zodiac Sign: Virgo.
Religion: Judeo-Christian.
Race or Ethnicity: White.
Education: the University of Munich, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
Occupation: Philosopher.
Privatdozent: University of Jena (1901-06).
Lecturer: University of Munich (1907-10).
Professor: University of Cologne (1919-28, philosophy and sociology).
Professor: University of Frankfurt.
Nationality: Germany.

Notable Ideas:
  • Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Value (1913)
  • The Nature of Sympathy (1913)
  • On the Eternal Man (1921)
Influenced By: Blaise Pascal, Franz Brentano, Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf Eucken, Edmund Husserl, Theodor Lipps.

Early Life & Childhood: Max Ferdinand Scheler was born on 22 August 1874 in Munich, Germany. After completing primary education, he entered the University of Munich in 1894. In 1895, Scheler left Munich and enrolled in Berlin to study medicine but he studied primarily philosophy and sociology under Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel. In 1896, he moved to Jena to finish his education at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. In 1897, Scheler received his doctorate degree. In 1898, he took a trip to Heidelberg where he met Max Weber.

Personal Life & Family: Max Scheler came to a Lutheran father and an Orthodox Jewish mother. He married first Amalie von Dewitz but had ended in divorce. In 1912, Scheler married again to Märit Furtwängle. He also divorced his 2nd wife and married the third time Maria, nee Scheu.

Later Life & Death: In 1901, Max Ferdinand Scheler began to teach at the University of Jena where he met Edmund Husserl. In 1906, he moved to Munich with his family and taught at the University of Munich from 1907 to 1910. From 1910 to 1911, he briefly lectured at the Philosophical Society of Göttingen. In 1919, Max Scheler became a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne and stayed in his position until 1928. He died on 19 May 1928. Max Scheler was buried at Suedfriedhof Cemetery, Cologne, Germany.