Editing Georg Simmel (section)

===Later life===

[[Image:Georg-Simmel-1914.jpg|thumb|150px|Simmel in 1914]]

In 1890, Georg married Gertrud Kinel, a philosopher who published under the [[pseudonym]] Marie-Luise Enckendorf, and under her own name. They lived a sheltered and [[bourgeois]] life, their home becoming a venue for cultivated gatherings in the tradition of the salon.<ref name="socio.ch">{{cite book|last1=Coser|first1=Lewis A|url=http://socio.ch/sim/bio.htm|title=Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context|date=1977}}</ref> They had one son, Hans Eugen Simmel, who became a medical doctor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://agso.uni-graz.at/lexikon/klassiker/simmel/42bio.htm|title=Biografie Georg Simmel|website=50 Klassiker der Soziologie|access-date=21 September 2017|archive-date=11 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511021654/http://agso.uni-graz.at/lexikon/klassiker/simmel/42bio.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Georg and Gertrud's granddaughter was the psychologist [[Marianne Simmel]]. Simmel also had a secret affair with his assistant [[Gertrud Kantorowicz]], who bore him a daughter in 1907, though this fact was hidden until after Simmel's death.<ref name="LaneRuehl2011">{{cite book|last=Lerner|first=Robert E.|title=A Poet's Reich: Politics and Culture in the George Circle|publisher=Camden House|year=2011|isbn=978-1-57113-462-2|editor1=Melissa Lane|editor-link1=Melissa Lane|pages=56–77|chapter=The Secret Germany of Gertrud Kantorowicz|author-link=Robert E. Lerner|editor2=Martin Ruehl|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YiiHc6WLpMC&pg=PA56}}</ref>

In 1909, Simmel, [[Ferdinand Tönnies]], [[Max Weber]], and others, co-founded the [[German Sociological Association|German Society for Sociology]].<ref name="Palmisano"/> He served as a member of its first executive body.<ref>Glatzer, Wolfgang. "[http://www.soziologie.de/index.php?id=14 Die akademische soziologische Vereinigung seit 1909]" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171433/http://www.soziologie.de/index.php?id=14 |date=3 March 2016 }} {{in lang|de}}. ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie''. Retrieved 17 January 2018.</ref> In 1914, Simmel received an ordinary professorship with chair, at the then German [[University of Strasbourg|University of Strassburg]],<ref name=":0" /> but did not feel at home there. Because [[World War I]] broke out, all academic activities and lectures were halted and lecture halls were converted to military hospitals. In 1915 he applied &ndash; without success &ndash; for a chair at the [[Heidelberg University]].<ref name="Goodstein">Goodstein, Elizabeth S. (2017). ''Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, {{ISBN|1503600742}}.</ref> In 1917, Simmel stopped reading the newspapers and withdrew to the [[Black Forest]] to finish the book ''The View of Life'' (''Lebensanschauung'').<ref name="The Sociology of Georg Simmel" |pages=xii–xiii/> Shortly before the end of the war in 1918, he died from [[Hepatocellular carcinoma|liver cancer]] in Strasbourg.<ref name="socio.ch" />