Dec16, 2005 -- concerning my changes of the biography part in the article about Norbert Elias:
Sources for my changes are (among others):
I don't know why people tend to ignore the research progress achieved by researchers from other disciplines - must have to do with psychology. Anyway. The young Norbert Elias popped up in the field of Modern history, especially concerning debates regarding Zionism and debates within intellectual circles around M. Buber, G. Scholem, Renaissance of Jewish Culture and so forth. Sociologists are not researching historical sources like historians, I presume, that is why they didn't know the milieu in the early 1920ies Elias was part of. It is a good starting point for more research and more discovery and insights concerning the development of Elias' Sociology, esp. looking at Elias intellectual sources (Cassirer and not only Hönigswald!) or researching his early discussions with peers like Fromm and Löwenthal, who he met as academic rivals 10 years later in Frankfurt.
I don't know, who is "Ot" and why he or she undid my update.
I am convinced that my update would be helpful to all kinds of researchers all over the world who want to know with whom Elias had contact and what kind of topics he discussed during his student times (before 1925).
For an editing war in Wikipedia I haven't got the time and nerve.
I am very curious, what is going to happen now ...
The only thing I have to say is: There is a lot more to find out, folks! JoergH