Arthur Nussbaum

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Arthur Nussbaum 1898
Berlin memorial plaque , Bebelplatz 2, in Berlin-Mitte

Arthur Nussbaum , originally Nussbaum , (born January 31, 1877 in Berlin , † November 22, 1964 in New York City , New York ) was a German- born American lawyer of Jewish descent.

Life

After graduating from high school, Arthur Nussbaum studied law in Berlin for three years from 1894 to 1897 , received his doctorate in 1898 and practiced the profession of lawyer for a few years after passing the assessor examination . In addition, he wrote numerous legal books and articles. After acquiring the Venia legendi , he taught commercial , banking and stock exchange law at Berlin University from 1914 . From 1921 until his dismissal in 1933 due to the National Socialist Professional Civil Service Act, he taught and researched there as an associate professor . His colleagues James Goldschmidt , Martin Wolff , Ernst Rabel , Fritz Schulz , Julius Flechtheim , Max Rheinstein , Julius Magnus and Max Alsberg also suffered a similar fate . Until 1934 he was still a member of the editorial team of the civil law journal Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP).

Arthur Nussbaum was a member of the main board of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith .

In 1934 he had to emigrate to the USA because of the National Socialist racial policy and taught at Columbia University from 1934 to 1951 , from 1939 with a research professorship . He received US citizenship in 1940.

Honor

There is a Berlin memorial plaque for him in the entrance to the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Publications

  • German mortgage system . JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1913
  • The legal fact research. Their importance for science and teaching . (PDF; 5 MB) JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1914; archive.org
  • Textbook of the German mortgage system together with an introduction to the general land register law . JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1921
  • Types of locations of the German men's clothing industry , Weiden in der Oberpfalz [1927], DNB 570972884 (Philosophical dissertation University of Heidelberg 1927, 75 pages).
  • German international private law . With special consideration of Austrian and Swiss law . JCB Mohr, Tuebingen 1932
  • Money in the law . 1939
  • Principles of private international law . 1942
  • A History of the Dollar . Columbia University Press, New York, NY 1957, OCLC 245758 .
  • A Concise history of the law of nations . Macmillan, New York 1947, 2nd expanded edition 1954. German, author-authorized translation by Herbert Thiele-Fredersdorf under the title History of International Law in a concise presentation . CH Beck, Munich / Berlin 1960

literature

  • Elliott E. Cheatham, Wolfgang G. Friedmann , Walter Gellhorn, Philip C. Jessup , Willis LM Reese, Schuyler C. Wallace: Arthur Nussbaum: A Tribute , Columbia Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 1 (January 1957), p . 1–7 (English)
  • Martin Domke, Arthur Nussbaum: The Pioneer of International Commercial Arbitration . In: Columbia Law Review , Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1957, pp. 8-10 (English)
  • Jochen Emmert:  Nussbaum, Arthur. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 376 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Arthur Nussbaum . In: Karin Orth: Expulsion from the science system. Commemorative book for the committee members of the DFG expelled under National Socialism, Stuttgart: Steiner 2018 (Contributions to the History of the German Research Foundation; 7), pp. 114–123. ISBN 978-3-515-11953-5

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personal data
SURNAME Nussbaum, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nussbaum, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1964
Place of death New York City