Max Grünhut

Max Grünhut
Born	July 7, 1893(1893-07-07) Magdeburg, Prussia
Died	February 6, 1964(1964-02-06) (aged 70) Oxford, England
Nationality	German-British
Fields	Legal studies, criminology

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.

Works

•     (1948). Penal Reform: a Comparative Study. Oxford. 

Further reading

• Hood, Roger (2004). "Hermann Mannheim (1889-1974) and Max Grünhut (1893-1964)". In Beatson, J.; Zimmermann, R.. Jurists uprooted: German-speaking émigré lawyers in twentieth-century Britain. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 709–738. ISBN 0199270589. 

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Name	Grunhut, Max
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Date of birth	7 July 1893
Place of birth	Magdeburg, Prussia
Date of death	6 February 1964
Place of death	Oxford, England