Sergei Borisovich Krylov

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Deputy Foreign Minister of the same name, see Sergei Borissowitsch Krylow (1949) .

Sergei Borisovich Krylov ( Russian Сергей Борисович Крылов , scientific. Transliteration Sergei Borisovič Krylov ; born January 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. January  1888 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 24. November 1958 in Moscow ) was a Russian jurist and diplomat , who from 1946 to 1952 as the first Soviet judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague .

Life

Sergei Krylow was born in Saint Petersburg in 1888 as the son of a military man and grew up in his hometown, where he also graduated with honors from the State University of Saint Petersburg in 1910 and then devoted himself to scientific work. In 1914, Krylov stopped working at the university and served as a soldier during the First World War until he was wounded and released in 1916. He then returned to academic work and worked, among other things, as a lecturer in constitutional law and international law . In 1930 he was awarded the doctorate degree . In this position he taught in the 1930s at the “Soviet Institute for Building and Law” in Leningrad, as his hometown was called at the time. In 1938 he became a professor of international law.

During the Second World War , Sergei Krylov was evacuated from besieged Leningrad to Kuibyshev in 1942. In the same year he began to work in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, for which he participated as a delegate in several international negotiations during the war. So he signed, among others, as one of the authorized representative of the country on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco , the United Nations Charter . In 1946 Krylow was appointed the first Soviet judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague . He held this office until 1952. From 1954 to 1956 he was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations .

In addition to his diplomatic career, Sergei Krylow continued to teach in the 1940s and 1950s. From 1943 until his death he was a professor and holder of the chair in international law at the Moscow Institute for International Relations . In 1947 he became a member of the Institut de Droit international and subsequently held a series of lectures in French at the Hague Academy for International Law . In total, Krylow wrote over 200 scientific publications on various aspects of international law, including aviation law and private international law . He died in Moscow in 1958 .

literature

• Sergei Borisovitch Krylov. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 301

Web links

• Biography from 1958 at law.edu.ru (Russian)