Ernst Levy | |
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Born | |
Died | 14 September 1968 | (aged 86)
Nationality | German American |
Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
Spouse |
Zerline Wolff (m. 1909) |
Children | Wolfgang (1910 - 2001), Brigitte (1912–1981) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History of law |
Doctoral advisor | Emil Seckel |
Ernst Levy (23 December 1881 – 14 September 1968) was a German American legal scholar and historian of law. He was a Professor of Roman Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt (1919–1928) and the University of Heidelberg (1928–1935).[1] Being Jewish, he was forced to retire in 1935, and decided to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States. At the University of Washington, he was a Professor of Law and History from 1937 to 1952.[2]
Born in Berlin, Levy studied law at the University of Freiburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin, earning his doctorate under Emil Seckel in 1906.[3] He briefly worked at the Amtsgericht in Oranienburg, and served in World War I, before earning a professorship in Frankfurt. Due to the Nuremberg Laws he had to retire in 1935, and then moved to the United States.