Dr. Hermann Kantorowicz, internationally known, legal expert and authority on the origins of the World War, died in Cambridge yesterday. He was 63 years old.
Born in Poznan, Dr. Kantorowicz held professorships in such German universities as Freiburg and Keil until 1933, leaving Germany upon the accession of Chancellon Adolf Hitler.
While on the keil faculty in 1931, Dr. Kantorowicz wrote a volume which attracted wide attention, "The Spirit of British Policy and the Myth of the Encirclement of Germany." From 1923 to 1929, he served as an expert of the Reichstag Commission on the Origins of the War.
Dr. Kantorowicz, who was the author of many books on various aspects of law, was well known in the United States, where he lectured at Columbia University in 1927, at the New School for Social Research in 1933-34 and the College of the City of New York in 1934.
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