Pavel Novgorodtsev

1866 - 1924

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  Russian Empire
languages spoken, written or signed:  Russian
occupation:  juristpoliticianphilosopherlawyer

Pavel Ivanovich Novgorodtsev (Russian: Па́вел Ива́нович Новгоро́дцев; 28 February [O.S. 16 February] 1866 in Bakhmut – 23 April 1924 in Prague) was a Russian lawyer and philosopher. Novgorodtsev graduated from Moscow University in 1888 with a degree in law. Following further study in Berlin and Paris he returned to Moscow University, completing his doctorate in 1903. from 1896 to 1911. He was a member of the Central Committee Constitutional Democrat Party (Kadets) and in 1906 he was elected as a deputy to the First State Duma. He was a signatory of the Vyborg Manifesto. He was also appointed director and a professor at the Moscow Commercial Institute that year. Ivan Ilyin was one of his protégés.During the First World War he worked with the Union of Cities and was the Moscow Commissioner of the Special Meeting on Fuel. During the Russian Civil War he sided with the Whites, 1918 and left the Crimea in 1920. After living in Berlin, 1922-1924, he moved to Prague where, shortly before his death, he became Dean of the Russian faculty of law at the Charles University there. Novgorodtsev is buried at the Orthodox cemetery at Prague's Olšany Cemetery. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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