Felix Frankfurter
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Education, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Teaching, Teachers, Supreme Court, U.S.
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present
Article abstract: Throughout Frankfurter’s tenure on the United States Supreme Court, he was committed to the principle of judicial restraint; as a teacher at Harvard Law School for more than twenty-five years, he was one of America’s greatest constitutional scholars.
Early Life
At the age of twelve, Felix Frankfurter emigrated from Vienna to New York City with his father, Leopold, his mother, Emma, three brothers, and two sisters. It was 1894. His father was an outgoing, gregarious man, something of a romantic dreamer, not very ambitious but always...
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