Hermann Kantorowicz

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

He was a professor at Freiburg University (1923-1929), Visiting Professor, Columbia University (1927), Kiel University (1929-1933), dismissed from Kiel on both political and antisemitic grounds, 1933, lecturer at the 'University in Exile' and at City College, New York, 1933–34, lecturer at London School of Economics, All Souls College Oxford and Cambridge University, 1934–37, Assistant Director of Research in Law, Cambridge, 1937-1940.
For further biographical details see: 'Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz, eine Biographie by Karlheinz Muscheler' Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1984.
(Note by his son Frank Kantorowicz Carter: Kantorowicz had only one first name, though from 1904 to 1922 he regularly added the initial 'U' to distinguish himself from another Hermann Kantorowicz.

Selected Literary works

Note: 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

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