Lawגד טדסקי

Gad Tedeschi

Gad Tedeschi was an Italian-born Israeli jurist and law professor at the Hebrew University, who received the Israel Prize in 1954.

1907 to 1992Israel Prize for jurisprudenceLaw professor at Hebrew UniversityCommentary on contract laws

Occupation: legal scholar, university teacher, jurist
Education: Sapienza University of Rome
Founded: Commentary on Laws relating to Contracts (edited by G. Tedeschi)

Gad Tedeschi was born in 1907 in Rovigo

Tedeschi was born in 1907 in Rovigo, in northern Italy, to Attilio and Paolina. His father's work moved the family to Bologna, then Ferrara, and in 1919 to Rome. He grew up in a secular home and studied Latin and Greek at a classical gymnasium.

He studied law at the University of Rome from 1924 and finished his first degree in 1928. He served in an Italian army anti-aircraft unit and took an officers course in 1927.

From 1928 to 1933 he worked as a lawyer in Rome while teaching and doing research. He taught at Cagliari, Perugia and Siena, and became a permanent professor at Siena in 1936. In 1938 he was dismissed under the antisemitic laws.

Drawn to Zionism, he visited the Land of Israel in 1931 and immigrated in 1939 on a tourist visa. As an Italian citizen he was held in a Jerusalem jail for a week after Italy entered the war.

He lectured in Tel Aviv and became a research fellow at the Hebrew University. In 1946 and 1947 he taught future diplomats in courses of the Jewish Agency. He won the Israel Prize for jurisprudence in 1954, joined the Israel Academy of Sciences in 1960, and died in 1992.