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Helmut Schoeck (3 July 1922 – 2 February 1993) was anAustrian-Germansociologist andwriter best known for his workEnvy: A Theory of Social Behavior (Der Neid: Eine Theorie der Gesellschaft).
Born inGraz, Schoeck spent his early years inBaden-Württemberg, finishing high school inLudwigsburg. He then studiedmedicine,philosophy andpsychology at the universities ofMunich andTübingen. With a dissertation onKarl Mannheim, Schoeck would obtain his doctorate underEduard Spranger.
For fifteen years, starting in 1950, Schoeck would work as a professor at various U.S. universities. In 1953, he taught philosophy atFairmont State College, followed by a two-year stint atYale. AtEmory University he was awarded a full professorship insociology. During the 1950s, Schoeck published some works in German, and translatedJoachim Wach'sSociology of Religion into German.
In 1965, Schoeck returned to Germany, where he obtained a chair in sociology at theJohannes Gutenberg University inMainz, which he would occupy until his retirement in 1990.
Schoeck, who was also a columnist of theWelt am Sonntag for twenty years, died of cancer in 1993.
