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Berlin (dpa) - The sociologist and artist Urs Jaeggi is dead. The Swiss-born scientist died on Saturday at the age of 89 in Berlin, as his family announced on Monday upon request.
"Der Tagesspiegel" had previously reported.
Jaeggi lived alternately in Berlin and Mexico City.
With his book “Macht und Herrschaft in der FRD” he was considered one of the most important ideas for the student movement in the 1960s.
Jaeggi, born in Solothurn in 1931, studied art history, economics and sociology in Geneva, Berlin and Bern.
After his habilitation in Bern, he went to the Ruhr University in Bochum and later to the New School for Social Research in New York.
From 1972 to 1993 he was a professor at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin.
In addition to his academic work, Jaeggi also wrote novels, short stories and essays.
In 1981 he was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt.
Since 1985 he has participated in solo and group exhibitions as a painter and sculptor.
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