Max Grünhut

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Max Grünhut
Born(1893-07-07)7 July 1893
Died6 February 1964(1964-02-06) (aged 70)
NationalityGerman-British
Scientific career
FieldsLegal studies, criminology

Max Grünhut (7 July 1893 – 6 February 1964) was a German-British legal scholar and criminologist. Of Jewish descent, he emigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism in 1939. Prior to that, he was held a professorship at the University of Bonn.

In England, he taught at the University of Oxford, becoming one of the most important British criminologists of his era, along with fellow emigrants  [de] and Leon Radzinowicz.

Works[]

  • ——— (1948). Penal Reform: a Comparative Study. Oxford.

Further reading[]

  • Hood, Roger (2004). "Hermann Mannheim (1889–1974) and Max Grünhut (1893–1964)". In Beatson, J.; Zimmermann, R. (eds.). Jurists Uprooted: German-Speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-Century Britain. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 709–738. ISBN 0-19-927058-9.
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