"Parsons died of a stroke on May 8, 1979 in Munich while on a trip to Germany, where he was celebrating the 50th anniversary of his Heidelberg degree. The day before he died he gave a lecture on the declining significance of social class for an audience of German intellectuals, including Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, Richard Munch and Wolfgang Schluchter. This is simply not true. These prominent German sociologists may have been in Parsons’s presence during the celebrations of his doctorate in Heidelberg, but they were not in Munich! Habermas and Schluchter came to Munich for the funeral service at the occasion of his cremation. Leon Mayhew is wrong (Horst J. Helle)."
— I’m starting to research Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills for the play I’m writing about them; I figured no one would care if I slipped on a few details. Parsons’s Wikipedia page suggests that, even if no one else would, Leon Mayhew and Horst J. Helle would care quite a bit.
(Source: Wikipedia)
