Richard Honig obtained his habilitation in 1919 and was appointed professor in 1925 in Göttingen.
[1] In 1933, he was forced from the university due to his Jewish heritage and his opposition to the Nazi policies.
[1] The same year, he was invited to join the newly founded University of Istanbul and emigrated to Turkey.
There, he wrote a Turkish Introduction into jurisprudence and to philosophy of law (both 1934 f.).
[1][2] In 1974, the widowed Honig moved permanently to Göttingen, where he resided until his death on 25 February 1981 at the age of ninety-one.