Adolph Hermann Friedmann (11 April 1873, in
Białystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area.
Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...
– 25 May 1957, in
Heidelberg) was a German
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
and
jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
,
Finnish citizen from 1906. In Finland Friedmann became known to the general public as a lawyer. His most famous case was a murder committed in 1927 in Turku. Friedmann defended the head of the University Library of Åbo Akademi and his wife in a murder trial, which was extensively reported in the newspapers around Europe.
[Rimpiläinen, Tuomas: Messukylän veriteko ja muita rikostarinoita Suomesta, Gummerus 2015]
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Literary works
* ''Die Welt der Formen. System eines morphologischen Idealismus'', Gebr. Paetel, Berlin 1925, C. H. Beck, München 1930
* ''Wissenschaft und Symbol''. Aufriss einer symbolnahen Wissenschaft'', Biederstein C. H. Beck), München 1949
* ''Sinnvolle Odysee''. Geschichte eines Lebens und einer Zeit'' (1873–1950), C. H. Beck, München 1950
See also
* International PEN
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association has autonomous Internationa ...
References
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Biographies.
Kulturportal West–Ost (in German)
19th-century German philosophers
German jurists
People from Białystok
1873 births
1957 deaths
Riga Technical University alumni
German male writers
20th-century Finnish lawyers
German emigrants to Finland
Naturalized citizens of Finland
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