Hermann Kantorowicz

Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz (18 November 1877, Posen, German Empire – 12 February 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.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Schmidt, Katharina Isabel (2023). "How Hermann Kantorowicz Changed His Mind About America and Its Law, 1927–34". Law and History Review. 41 (1): 93–117. doi:10.1017/S0738248023000020. ISSN 0738-2480.
  2. ^ For further biographical details see: Muscheler, Karlheinz (1984). Hermann Ulrich Kantorowicz. Eine Biographie. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. ISBN 978-34280-5692-7.