Hermann Kantorowicz

Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz (November 18, 1877, Posen, German Empire – February 12, 1940, Cambridge) was a German jurist.

He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), and a Visiting Professor, Columbia University (1927), as well as at Kiel University (1929-1933). He was dismissed from Kiel on political and antisemitic grounds in 1933, and became lecturer at the 'University in Exile' and at City College, New York, 1933–34. Then he was lecturer at the London School of Economics, All Souls College Oxford and Cambridge University, 1934–37, and Assistant Director of Research in Law, Cambridge, 1937-1940.[1]

Selected works

A comprehensive bibliography can be found in Relativismus und Freirecht,ein Versuch űber Hermann Kantorowicz by Karlheinz Muscheler , C.F. Müller Juristicher Verlag, Heidelberg, 1984

(Posthumous publications)

Goodhart, 1958. Also translated into Italian, La Definicione del Diritto, trans. Enrico di Robilant, 1962; into German, Der Begriff des Rechts, trans. Werner Goldschmidt and Gerd Kastendieck, 1963; into Spanish, La Definícón del Derecho, trans. J.M. de la Vego, 1964

Collected small writings

At the instigation of his widow, Mrs Hilda Kantorowicz (1892-1974), the more significant small writings of Hermann Kantorowicz were published in the two following works. These writings are marked with '#' or '##' respectively in the above bibliography

References

  1. For further biographical details see: 'Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz, eine Biographie by Karlheinz Muscheler Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1984.

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