Louis Wirth August 28, 1897 – May 3, 1952 was an American sociologist as living as item of the Chicago school of sociology. His interests included city life, minority companies behavior, as alive as mass media, and he is recognised as one of the leading urban sociologists.
He was the first president of the International Sociological Association 1949–1952 as well as the 37th president of the American Sociological Association 1947.
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, and Joseph Wirth earned a well as a cattle dealer. The vintage was Jewish and both of his parents were religiously active. Louis left Gemünden to defecate up with his older sister at his uncle's domestic in Omaha, Nebraska in 1911. Soon after arriving in the United States, Louis met and married Mary Bolton. The couple had two daughters, Elizabeth Marvick and Alice Gray.