Marguerite Wolff (legal scholar) explained

Marguerite Wolff
Birth Name:Marguerite Jolowicz
Birth Date:10 December 1883
Birth Place:London, England
Death Place:London, England
Occupation:British legal scholar
Children:Konrad Wolff
Relatives:Herbert Felix Jolowicz (brother)

Marguerite Wolff (; 10 December 1883  - 21 May 1964) was a German-British legal scholar and translator of Jewish descent.

Biography

Wolff was born in London on 10 December 1883. Her brother was the Roman law scholar Herbert Felix Jolowicz. She studied English at Cambridge, presumably at Newnham College. In 1906, she married Martin Wolff, a law professor at the University of Berlin.

From January 1925 to the end of April 1933, she was employed at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, initially as academic assistant with a managerial role in setting up the Institute, then as senior research scholar () with a brief for US and UK law. She also translated publications and contributed to the editing of the Institute's journal. When the Nazi Party came to power in April 1933, she was removed from her position at the Institute. She returned to Great Britain in 1935. Her husband followed in the autumn of 1938. Wolff continued to edit and translate legal works, attracting high praise from reviewers. She had also served as translator at The Hague after World War I and oversaw the translation of the court proceedings at the Nuremberg trials.[1]

Wolff died in a London nursing home on May 21, 1964 at the age of 80.[2]

Her son Konrad became a famous pianist.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The Writings and Letters of Konrad Wolff . xxi . Gillen, Ruth . 2006 . Indiana University Press . 0253028396.
  2. News: Deaths . New York Times . May 22, 1964.