The Three Types of Legitimate Rule (Die drei reinen Typen der legitimen Herrschaft) is an essay written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist, explaining his tripartite classification of authority. Originally published in the journal Preussische Jahrbücher 187, 1-2, 1922, an English translation, translated by Hans Gerth, was published in the journal Berkeley Publications in Society and Institutions 4(1): 1-11, 1958. Weber's ideas about legitimate rule also appear in his Basic Concepts in Sociology and The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. The word Rule was employed in the 1958 essay translation by translator Hans Gerth, a native speaking German who lived in Germany until he was 30 (fleeing just prior to World War II) and is a direct translation of Herrschaft from the original essay title; whereas, the English translators of the book The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, Alexander M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons, substituted the word rule for authority.