Background
Henry Julian Abraham was born on August 25, 1921, in Offenbach am Main, Germany. He was the son of Fredrick and Louise (Kullmann) Abraham. His family was Jewish.
1972
Henry Abraham receiving an honorary doctorate from Kenyon College in 1972
1984
Henry Abraham by David Skinner, 1984, UVA Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections
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Henry Julian Abraham was born on August 25, 1921, in Offenbach am Main, Germany. He was the son of Fredrick and Louise (Kullmann) Abraham. His family was Jewish.
In 1937, Henry Abraham immigrated alone to the United States from Germany during the rise of the Nazi regime. His parents and brother Otto followed in 1939. The family settled in Pittsburgh, PA.
Henry Abraham served in World War II as an enlisted man and officer in U.S. Army Intelligence on duty in Western and Central Europe. He received two Battle Stars and the Commendation Medal. When the war ended in the European Theater, Henry Abraham, who was fluent in German, French, and English, and adequate in Danish, served in a military unit that gathered evidence for use in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.
In 1948 Henry Abraham graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio with a bachelor's degree with the highest honors in political science, first in his class, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Master of Arts in public law and government from Columbia University in 1949, and he received his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, where he began his teaching career.
After serving in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Political Science for 23 years (1949-1972), Henry Abraham became a chaired professor in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia in 1972.
A pioneer in comparative judicial studies, Henry Abraham served as a Fulbright Scholar in Denmark at the Universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, where he was instrumental in establishing the country's first Department of Political Science. Henry Abraham lectured throughout the world under U.S.I.A. auspices.
Henry Abraham retired from full-time teaching in 1997 after nearly a half-century in the classroom, but he continued to teach in lifelong learning programs in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(Written by one of the nation's most astute observers of t...)
(Since its original publication in 1967, Freedom and the C...)
(Provides the history of the 110 members of the U.S. Supre...)
(This classic history of the 108 members of the U.S. Supre...)