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Wolfgang Friedmann
German American legal scholar

Wolfgang Friedmann

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German American legal scholar
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Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann
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25 January 1907, Berlin, Germany
Death
20 September 1972, New York City, New York, U.S.A. (aged 65 years)
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65 years
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Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar. Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School.

Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930. Being Jewish, he immigrated to the United States shortly after the Nazis' seizure of power in Germany.

In 1955, he became a professor of international law at Columbia University. In 1972, he was robbed and stabbed to death near Columbia campus in Manhattan. The Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award was established in his honor.

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