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German-American historian (1895–1963)

Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (May 3, 1895 – September 9, 1963^[7]) was a German historian of medieval political and intellectual history and art, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and The King's Two Bodies (1957) on medieval and early modern ideologies of monarchy and the state.^[8] He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[9][10]

Life

Early life and education

Kantorowicz was born in Posen (then part of Prussia) to a wealthy, assimilated German-Jewish family, and as a young man was groomed to take over his family's prosperous liquor distillery business.

He served as an officer in the German Army for four years in World War I. After the war, he matriculated at the University of Berlin to study economics, at one point also joining a right-win