About Brigitte Bodenheimer
Lived 1912 – 1981 (aged 68). Brigitte Bodenheimer was a German jurist.
Brigitte Marianne Levy Bodenheimer (September 27, 1912 – January 7, 1981) was a German American jurist. Specializing in family law, she was a professor at S.J. Quinney College of Law and UC Davis School of Law.
Born in Berlin to Ernst Levy and Zerline Wolff, Bodenheimer graduated from the University of Heidelberg in 1934. Being Jewish, she immigrated from Nazi Germany that same year and continued her legal education at Columbia Law School (where she met her husband Edgar Bodenheimer) and later University of Washington School of Law.
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German American jurist
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Brigitte Bodenheimer was born on 27 September 1912 in Berlin.
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Brigitte Bodenheimer died on 7 January 1981 in Davis.
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Brigitte Bodenheimer was a jurist.
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Brigitte Bodenheimer was German.
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