Editing Thomas Luckmann (section)

=== Educational background ===
Luckmann attended high school in Klagenfurt, Austria, after he and his family fled Italian occupation in Ljubljana in 1941. After the end of the war, Luckmann could return to school in Klagenfurt and pass his exit exams, the "Matura." Luckmann began studying [[philosophy]] and [[linguistics]] at the [[University of Vienna]] in 1947 and continued in [[University of Innsbruck|Innsbruck]] in 1948,<ref name=":0" /> studying different subjects in the social science field. He moved to the United States in 1950 with his wife, Benita Petkevic, where he then studied at [[The New School]] in [[New York City]].<ref name=":1" /> 
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At The New School, Luckmann began to discern his career as a sociologist. He was taught by [[Alfred Schütz]], Dorion Cairns, Albert Salomon, and Carl Meyer, they later became great influence on Luckmann. This was when he was first introduced to the sociological discipline, and then he got familiarized with [[Alfred Schütz]]'s work on sociological phenomenology. He went on to meet Peter Berger, where he would later go on to co-author ''[[The Social Construction of Reality]]'', which later ended up becoming one of his most notable works. Together, he and his colleagues produced some of the most influential sociological works of the 20th century.

Luckmann never intended to become a sociologist. His initial academic interests resided in linguistics, history and philosophy. At The New School, Luckmann primarily studied philosophy and chose to study sociology as a second subject, influenced by the professors there.<ref name=":7" /> For example, Luckmann was introduced to the sociology of religion when his teacher at the time, Carl Meyer, asked him to do field work about churches in Germany after World War II. Captivated by his experience in Germany, Luckmann used his fieldwork to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology.<ref name=":6">{{cite journal |last1=Dreher |first1=Jochen |last2=Göttlich |first2=Andreas |title=Structures of a Life-Work: A Reconstruction of the Oeuvre of Thomas Luckmann |journal=Human Studies |date=March 2016 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=27–49 |doi=10.1007/s10746-016-9392-6 |s2cid=147459455 |url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-g37is75x7h360 }}</ref> He obtained his first academic position at Hobart College, in Geneva, New York, before returning to teach at The New School after the death of [[Alfred Schütz]]. Luckmann was eventually granted a professorship position at the University of Frankfurt in 1965. After publishing two books in 1963 and 1966, and several successful essays, Luckmann worked as a professor of [[Sociology]] at the [[University of Konstanz]] in [[Germany]] from 1970 to his retirement,<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last1=Adam|first1=F|last2=Čas|first2=B|date=2004|title=Utemeljitev za imenovanje dr. Tomaža Luckmanna, profesorja emeritusa, za častnega člana Slovenskega sociološkega društva|journal=Druzboslovne Razprave|language=sl|volume=20|pages=87–89}}</ref> and later [[professor emeritus]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|date=2016|title=In memoriam Thomas Luckmann (14. Oktober 1927 - 10. Mai 2016)|journal=Soziologie|language=de|volume=45|pages=335–341}}</ref> It is noted that his time in at [[University of Konstanz|Konstanz]] was marked as an intense period of interdisciplinary work, in which he wrote multiple essays concerning communication, linguistics, literature and history.