Nationality German American Name Ernst Levy Fields Legal history | Doctoral students Wolfgang Kunkel Role Jurist Doctoral advisor Emil Seckel | |
Born 23 December 1881
Berlin, Prussia ( 1881-12-23 ) Alma mater Humboldt University of Berlin Spouse Zerline Wolff (m. 1909) Children Wolfgang (1910 - 2001) , Brigitte (1912–1981) Died September 14, 1968, Davis, California, United States Education Humboldt University of Berlin (1906) Books West Roman Vulgar Law: The Law of Property Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada | ||
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). 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.
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. 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.