Richard Honig was a German penologist.

Life

Richard Honig was professor since 1920 in Göttingen and emigrated 1933 to Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

. There, he wrote a turkish Introduction into jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

 and to philosophy of law (both 1934 f.). In 1939, he emigrated to the USA. After his retirement in the USA in 1963, he came regularly to teaching and research stints to Germany.

Other works

• Die Einwilligung des Verletzten, 1919
• Studien zur juristischen und natürlichen Handlungseinheit, 1925
• Die straflose Vortat und Nachtat, 1927
• Römisches Recht, 1936
• Kirchenrecht, 1954
• Wiederaufnahme im amerikanischen Strafverfahren, 1969
• Schwurgericht, 1974

Literatur

• Barbara Huber, Richard Martin Honig 1890-1981. Auf der Suche nach dem richtigen Recht, in: Helmut Heinrichs / Harald Franzki / Klaus Schmalz / Michael Stolleis, Deutsche Juristen jüdischer Herkunft, München 1993, S. 747-752
• Walter Tetzlaff, 2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts, Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982 ISBN 3-921730-10-4