Question :
In the following question, a situation is described and followed by a list of words. Identify the correct word which can be used to describe the situation/passage or a part of the passage and mark the answer.
His international impact was easily equivalent to that of Simmel's contemporaries, Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, finding an audience in Chicago as early as the 1890s. Nevertheless, he was perpetually denied academic promotion. As his father had died while Simmel was young, he was appointed a guardian who owned a music publishing house and who left Simmel a considerable inheritance, financially securing his intellectual pursuits.