Mychajlo Chubynskyi

Mychajlo Chubynskyj before 1917

Mykhaylo Pawlowytsch Tschubynskyj ( Ukrainian Михайло Павлович Чубинський , Russian Михаил Павлович Чубинский Mikhail Pavlovich Tschubinski * November 7 ^jul. / 19th November  1871 ^greg. In Boryspil , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 19th January 1943 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) was a Ukrainian lawyer, criminologist and politician. From May to August 1918 he was Ukrainian Minister of Justice .

Life

Mychajlo Tschubynskyj was born in Boryspil in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Kiev in 1871 as the son of the ethnographer Pavlo Tschubynskyj and received his first school education at home. He then graduated from the Second Gymnasium in Kiev and then attended the Pawel Galagan College in Kiev . Finally, in 1893, he graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Vladimir University in Kiev , where he initially stayed to prepare for a professorship in the Department of Criminal Law. Since 1897 he was a private professor at Kiev University and held a. a. the course on new studies in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure . During this time he also worked in the Kiev Investigation District and at the Kiev District Court. To familiarize himself with the latest legal theories, he attended the universities of Vienna , Granada , Berlin , Halle and Leipzig in 1898 . Among other things, he worked under the direction of the representative of the sociological school of criminal law Franz von Liszt and the international law expert Heinrich Lammasch . As a result of his study trip, he wrote his master's thesis on The Motive of Criminal Activity and its Significance in the Science of Criminal Law . In 1900 he defended his dissertation at Moscow University . In 1901/02 he worked in Germany, France and Switzerland; his dissertation was published in German translation in 1902. From 1902 to 1906 he was a professor at the Department of Criminal Law in Yaroslavl on Legal Lyceum "PGDemidow" and in itself department at the University in Kharkov . After he published his work on the history of criminal law in 1904, he received the academic title of Doctor of Criminal Law . In the years 1906–1909 he was also director of the Legal Lyceum "PGDemidow" and taught at the Alexander Lyceum and the Alexander Military Academy in Saint Petersburg , among others . His article, published in 1913 in the newspaper Ukrainian Life ( Украинская Жизнь Ukraynskaja Schysn ), the Ukrainian national idea and its legal postulates justified Ukraine's right to national identity. After his time in Kharkiv he was a private professor at the University of Saint Petersburg until 1916 and in 1917 he was a senator and a freelance professor at the Petrograd University. He was also a partner in law firms in Kharkiv, Kiev and Yaroslavl.

After the end of the provisional government , Chubynskyj traveled to Ukraine in 1917 and became Minister of Justice in the Ukrainian State (Hetmanat) under Pavlo Skoropadskyj from May 8 to August 24, 1918, and at the same time deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers from May to July 1918. In this position he was involved in the preparation of the bill establishing the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the drafting of the Citizenship Act. He was then officially dismissed from his ministerial post by Skoropadskyi for scientific activities and at the same time appointed head of the General State Court of the Senate.

After the end of the hetmanate he traveled to the Don , where at the time the volunteer army ruled under Denkin , whose government he served as chief prosecutor. He then moved to the Crimea and tried, in cooperation with the Wrangel government , to establish a dialogue between the latter and the Ukrainian autonomous authorities. From Crimea he emigrated to Belgrade in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and became a professor at the university , from 1920 a member of the Permanent Council for Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom and from 1922 a full professor of criminal law at the University of Subotica . He also became a member of the editorial board of several newspapers, was a member of the commission for the preparation of a new Yugoslav penal code in the mid-1920s and was involved in the Criminological Museum in Belgrade. He has also published papers on Serbian criminal law and has written scientific and practical comments on the Yugoslav Criminal Code of 1929 and the Yugoslav Criminal Procedure Act of 1929.

Tschubynskyi died at the age of 71 in Belgrade and was buried in the family grave in the New Russian Cemetery .

Honors

• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd and 4th grade
• Medal commemorating the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov family

Works (selection)

• The reverse action of criminal law (1896)
• The modern struggle of views for and against legal proceedings and attempts at reform in this area (1897)
• General characteristics of new students in criminal law (1898)
• On the Importance of Criminal Law of the Motive of Criminal Activity and its Connection with New Trends in This Science (1901)
• Science of Criminal Law and its Elements (1902)
• Jury and new Senate practice of the Senate (1904)
• On the question of the economic causes of crime (1905)
• Essays on Criminal Policy (1905)
• The course of criminal policy (1909)
• Anniversaries of judicial institutions and their representation in literature (1915)

Web links

• Biography Mychajlo Chubynskyj on sklaviny (Russian)
• Biography of Mychajlo Chubynskyj on Масон.УКР; accessed on April 28, 2019 (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Mychajlo Tschubynskyj ; accessed on April 28, 2019 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Entry on Mychajlo Tschubynskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 28, 2019 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} biography on biography.yaxy.ru ; accessed on April 28, 2019 (Ukrainian)