Hermann Kantorowicz
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Hermann Kantorowicz was a distinguished German jurist
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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 & Humbolt, 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.
(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
Detailed analysis of Kantorowicz's Life
Jurist
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He was a professor
Professor
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at Freiburg University (1923-1929), Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Columbia University
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(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 & Humbolt, 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- Aesthetik der Lyrik. Das Georgesche Gedicht (w. Heinrich Goesch), 1902, under pseudonym of Kuno Zwymann.
- Goblers Karolinen-Kommentar und seine Nachfolger, 1904
- Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft, (under pseudonym of Gnaeus FlaviusGnaeus FlaviusGnaeus Flavius was the son of a freedman and rose to the office of aedile in the Roman Republic.Flavius was secretary to the consul Appius Claudius, a civil service job paid from the public treasury. The position allowed him to gain a thorough knowledge of Roman law, which had traditionally been...
)1906# - Una festa bolognese per l'Epifania del 1289, 1906
- Schriftvergleichung und Urkundenfälschung, 1906
- Cino da Pistoja ed il primo trattato di medicina legale, 1906##
- Probleme der Strafrechtsvergleichung, 1907
- Albertus Gandinus und das Strafrecht der Scholastik, Erster Band: Die Praxis, 1907
- Die Freiheit des Richters bei der Strafzumessung, 1908
- Zur Lehre vom richtigen Recht, 1909
- Über die Entstehung der Digestenvulgata, 1910
- Die contra-legem-Fabel, 1910
- Der Strafgesetzentwurf und die Wissenschaft, 1910/11
- Rechtswissenschaft und Soziologie, 1911#
- Was ist uns Savigny?,1912##
- Volksgeist und historische Rechtsschule, 1912##
- Wider die Todesstrafe, 1912
- Max Conrat(Cohn)und die mediävistische Forschung, 1912
- Ausgabe von Max Conrats Schrift, Römisches Recht im frühesten Mittelalter, 1913
- Zu den Quellen des Schwabenspiegels, 1913##
- Die Epochen Der Rechtswissenschaft, 1914##
- Der Offiziershass im deutschen Heer, 1919
- Thomas Diplovatatius. De claris juris consultis. Bd. 1. (w. Fritz Schulz), 1919.
- Der Umsturz in Pesaro 1516, 1919
- Deutschlands Interesse am Völkerbund, 1920
- Staatsbürgerkunde als Unterrichtsfach, 1920
- Die Zukunft des strafrechtlichen Unterrichts, 1920
- Einführung in die Textkritik, 1921##
- Bismarcks Schatten* ,1921
- Hinter den Kulissen von Versailles, 1921
- Geschichte des Gandinustextes, 1. Teil, 1921
- Verteidigung des Völkersbundes. 1922
- Der italienische Strafgsetzentwurf und seine Lehre, 1922
- Notiz über Max Weber in Logos XI, 1922#
- das Principium Decretalium des Johannes de Deo, 1922
- Geschichte des Gandinustextes, 2. Teil, 1922
- Der Völkerbund im Jahre 1922
- Der Aufbau der Soziologie, in Erinnerungsgabe für Max Weber, 1923#
- Die Idee des Völkerbundes, 1923
- Should Germany join the League of Nations? In Foreign Affairs, 1924
- Germany and the League of Nations, lecture to Fabian Society, 1924
- Leben und Schriften des Albertus Gandinus, 1924
- Studien zum altitalienischen Strafprozeß. I. Bologneser Strafprozeßordnung von 1288; II. Der Tractatus de tormentis, 1924##
- Fechenbachurteil und Kriegsschuldfrage, 1925
- Studien zur Kriegsschuldfrage, 1925
- Pazifismus und Fascismus, 1925
- Savigny-Briefe, 1925
- Staatsauffassungen. Eine Skizze, 1925#
- Il 'Tractatus criminum', per il cinquantenario della Rivista Penale, Citta di Castello, 1925##
- Aus der Vorgeschichte der Freirechtslehre, 1925#
- Albertus Gndinus und der Strafrecht der Scholastik, 2. Band, 1926
- Die Irrationalität der englischen Politik, 1926
- Der Landesverrat im deutschen Strafrecht, 1926/27
- The New Germanic Constitution in Theory and Practice, 1927
- Damasus, 1927
- Naber zum Brachylogus, 1927
- Ein vergessener Tatbestand: die Kriegshetze, 1927/28
- Die Wahrheit über Sarajevo, 1928
- Legal Science. A summary of its methodology, 1928#
- Verfolgungseifer, 1928/29
- Die Sterilisierung von Minderwertigen in den Vereinigten Staaten, 1929
- Grundbegriffe der Literaturgeschichte, 1929##
- Kritische Studien zur Quellen- und Literatur- geschichte des röm. Rechts im Mittelalter, 1929
- Accursio e la sua biblioteca, 1929
- Nochmals Sarajevo, 1929
- Der Geist der englischen Politik u. d. Gespenst der Einkreisung Deutschlands, 1929
- Eine Gesamtausgabe des Pillius in Vorbereitung, 1930
- English Politics through German eyes, 1930
- Praestantia Doctorum, Festschrift für Max Poppenheim, 1931##
- The Spirit of British Policy and the Myth of the Encirclement of Germany, 1931
- Trauerrede auf Julius Landmann, 1932
- The Concept of the State, 1932
- Die Allegationen im späten Mittelalter, 1932##
- Savignys Marburger Methodenlehre, 1933##
- De ornatu Mulierum, 1933##
- Tat und Schuld, 1933
- Current misunderstandings of Hitlerism, under pseudonym of Cassander, 1933
- Some Rationalism about Realism, 1934#
- Baldus de Ubaldis and the subjective theory of guilt, 1934##
- Rapport sur les Sources du Droit, 1934
- Dictatorships, with a bibliography by Alexander Elkin, 1935
- A medieval Grammarian on the sources of the law, 1936##
- Savigny and the Historical School of Law, 1937##
- Les origines françaises des Exceptiones Petri, 1937##
- De Pugna. La letteratura longobardistica sul duello giudiziario, 1938##
- Has Capitalism failed in Law?, 1835-1935, 1938
- De Pugna. La Letteratura Longobardistica sul Duello Giudiziario, 1938##
- Les origines françaises des Exceptiones Petri, 1938##
- The poetical sermon of a medieval jurist, 1938##
- Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law: w. W.W.Buckland, 1938
- The Quaestiones disputatae of the Glossators, 1939##
(Posthumous publications)
- Bractonian Problems, 1941
- An English Theologian's view of Roman Law, w. Beryl Smalley, edited by Nicolai Rubinstein, 1941##
- A Greek Justinian Constitution, quoted in the Dissensiones Dominorum, 1945##
- The Definition of Law, w. introduction by Arthur
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
- Gutachten zur Kriegsschuldfrage 1914, edited with an introduction by Imanuel GeissImanuel GeissImanuel Geiss is a German historian.- Life :Imanuel Geiss was born as the youngest of 5 children to a working class family affected by the economic crisis. The unemployed father had to raise the children alone as the mother suffered from Meningitis...
, 1967 - Diplovatatius 2. Band, edited by Giuseppe Rabotti, 1968
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- #Rechtswissenschaft und Soziologie: ausgewählte Schriften zur Wissenschaftslehre, edited by Thomas Würtenberger, Verlag C.F. Müller, Karlsruhe, 1962
- ##Rechtshistorische Schriften, selected and edited by Helmut Coing and Gerhard Immel, Verlag C.F. Müller, Karlsruhe, 1970
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