Stephan Lessenich was born in 1965 in Stuttgart. He studied Political Science, Sociology and History in Marburg and graduated from the University of Bremen. He spent ten years working at the University of Göttingen, where he qualified as Professor of Sociology. He then went on to hold a professorial post in the Sociology Department of the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Since 2014, he has been Chair of Sociology (Social Developments and Structures) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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(Updated: 2020)
