Max Grünhut

Max A. Grünhut (born July 7, 1893 in Magdeburg , † February 6, 1964 in Oxford ) was a criminal lawyer and criminologist .

Life

Grünhut taught as a professor at the University of Bonn , but lost his chair as a result of National Socialism and emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1939. At Oxford University he became one of the most important British criminologists , alongside Hermann Mannheim and Leon Radzinowicz . He voted for a combination of criminal policy , criminal law and criminology .

Anselm von Feuerbach and the problem of criminal attribution , Hamburg 1922 (reprint 1978)
with Lothar Frede, Reform of the Prison System: Critical Contributions to the Official Draft of a Prison Act , Berlin: W. de Gruyter & Co., 1927
Penal Reform: A comparative study , London: Oxford University Press, 1948
Juvenile offenders before the courts , Clarendon Press, 1956
The selection of offenders for probation , United Nations Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, 1959

Ulrike Fontaine: Max Grünhut (1893–1964). Life and academic work of a German criminal lawyer of Jewish origin . Frankfurt a. M., New York: Peter Lang, 1998
In memory of Max Grünhut . Speeches at the commemoration of the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Bonn on July 25, 1965 by Horst Albach , Ernst Friesenhahn , Hellmuth von Weber . University of Bonn: Alma Mater. Contributions to the history of the University of Bonn, 1965.
Erich Schwinge ; Hans Welzel ; Hilde Kaufmann (Hrsg.): Souvenir for Max Grünhut 1893–1964. Marburg: Elwert, 1965.
Roger Hood: Hermann Mannheim and Max Grünhut: Criminological Pioneers in London and Oxford , in: The British Journal of Criminology , Vol. 44, Issue 4, pp. 469-495, 2004.

personal data
SURNAME	Grünhut, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grünhut, Max A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-British legal scholar and criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1964
Place of death	Oxford