Max Grünhut
Max Grünhut | |
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Born | |
Died | 6 February 1964 | (aged 70)
Nationality | German-British |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Legal 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 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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- 1893 births
- 1964 deaths
- German legal scholars
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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