Max Hamburger

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Max Hamburger, Dr. jur. et rer. pol., a practicing attorney, and a legal and Aristotelian scholar, was the author of a definitive handbook of the German law on good will and fair dealing, Treu and Glauben in Verkehr(Bernsheimer, Berlin,1930).

Born May 31, 1897 in Kitzingen am Main, Bavaria, he studied at the University of Würzburg and University of Heidelberg, 1918-21, after having served as an officer in the German artillery during WWI. This service and a war medal saved the young Jewish lawyer's life in 1939, when he was released from the Dachau concentration camp and permitted to emigrate to England.

In London he researched ancient and legal philosophy, moving to New York 1948,to lecture at the NewSchool for Social Research and Columbia University (1953) retiring in 1967 and dying on February 3, 1970.

In addition to Treu und Glauben, his published books include Deaeck Institute Library, NYC.flacion und Rechtsordnung (Bernsheimer, 1933), The Awakening of WesternLegal Thought (Allen & Unwin, London, 1942), Morals and law; the Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory (Yale University Pres, 1951, new edition, Biblo & Tannen, NY, 1965), and articles in scholarly journals. A contributor to the German Wiedergutmachung law, his manuscripts are at the Leo Baeck Institute Libraty, NYC.