Wolfgang Friedmann
Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann 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.
