Leon Petrażycki
Leon Petrażycki ( Лев Иосифович Петражицкий ; born April 13, 1867 , † May 15, 1931 ) was a Polish philosopher, lawyer and sociologist. He is considered to be the founder of the legal sociology of Eastern Europe.
Life
Leon Petrażycki was born to the Polish nobility in the Vitebsk region of the Russian Empire . He completed his studies at the University of Kiev in 1890, spent two years in Berlin on a scholarship and received his doctorate in 1896 from the University of St. Petersburg . There he taught from 1897 to 1917 as a professor of legal philosophy .
In 1906 Petrażycki was elected to the First Duma as a member of the Constitutional Democrats . When the legislature was dissolved after two months, he signed the Vyborg Manifesto in protest . For this he was sentenced to a 3-month prison term in the Vyborg Trial. Petrażycki was appointed to the Russian Supreme Court in 1917, but had to leave the country after the October Revolution . He found a new home in Poland and in 1919 became the first professor of sociology at the University of Warsaw . In 1931 Petrażycki committed suicide.
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- ↑ Deflem, Mathieu. 2008. Sociology of Law: Visions of a Scholarly Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petrażycki, Leon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Петражицкий, Лев Иосифович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish philosopher, lawyer and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1867 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1931 |