Otto Eichelmann

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Otto Eichelmann

Otto Eichelmann ( Ukrainian Отто Оттович Ейхельман Otto Ottowytsch Ejchelman , Russian Оттон Оттонович Эйхельман Otton Ottonowitsch Ejchelman ; born April 15, jul. / 27. April  1854 greg. In Georgievsky, Governorate Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 21st February 1943 in Prague , protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) was a Ukrainian national and international law , legal historian , university lecturer and political consultant Baltic German descent.

Life

Otto Eichelmann was born in the hamlet of Georgijewski ( Георгиевский ) near Jamburg and was baptized Lutheran . He went to high school in Reval and studied from January 1873 at the University of Dorpat , which he graduated in June 1875 as a candidate for law. In September 1876 he defended his thesis in constitutional and international law at the law faculty of the same university and on March 18, 1878 he became a full-time assistant professor at the department of constitutional and administrative law of the legal high school "PG Demidow" in Yaroslavl appointed and defended his dissertation in international law there in 1880.

On April 13, 1880 he was appointed doctor of international law and on July 9, 1880 as associate professor at the Legal Lyceum "PG Demidow". On April 9, 1882 he became an associate professor and on April 1, 1883 full professor of the Department of General History of Law and International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of St. Vladimir University of Kiev . In January 1884 he also became professor of international law and from 1905 he was dean of the law faculty of the university. From 1908 to 1913 he was the director of the Kiev Trade Institute.

From 1918 he worked for the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic . Among other things, he was involved in the conclusion of economic agreements with Germany and Austria-Hungary and author of the draft constitution of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

In 1921 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia , where he was from 1922 professor and 1923/24 dean of the law faculty of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague and professor at the Ukrainian Business Academy in Poděbrady . From 1924 on he was an active member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv . He died in February 1943 at the age of 88 in Prague.

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Individual evidence

  1. Traces of Germany Ukraine - Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University on the website of the Goethe Institute ; accessed on August 30, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ Entry on Otto Eichelmann in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 31, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. a b c d Otto Eichelmann in the Biographical Dictionary of Professors and Teachers of the Imperial University of St. Vladimir , 1834–1884 / Comp. Ed. VS Ikonnikow. - Kiev: guy. The Imperial University of St. Vladimir, 1884 .; accessed on August 30, 2018 (Russian)
  4. a b c d Entry on Otto Eichelmann in the Encyclopedia of the History of the Ukraine ; accessed on August 31, 2018 (Ukrainian)