About Max Grünhut
Lived 1893 – 1964 (aged 70). Max Grünhut was a British and German jurist, university teacher and criminal investigator.
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 Hermann Mannheim and Leon Radzinowicz.
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Who was Max Grünhut?
German-British legal scholar
When was Max Grünhut born?
Max Grünhut was born on 7 July 1893 in Magdeburg.
When did Max Grünhut die?
Max Grünhut died on 6 February 1964 in Oxford.
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Max Grünhut was a jurist, university teacher and criminal investigator.
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Max Grünhut was British and German.
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