Serhiy Scheluchin

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Serhiy Pawlowytsch Scheluchin ( Ukrainian Сергій Павлович Шелухін , Russian Сергей Павлович Шелухин Sergei Pavlovich Scheluchin ; born October 6, jul. / 18th October  1864 greg. In Denhy , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 25. December 1938 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Ukrainian lawyer, publicist, writer, university professor and politician.

Life

Serhiy Scheluchin was born in the village of Denhy ( Деньги ) in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Cherkassy, the son of noble parents. At St. Vladimir University he graduated from the law faculty in 1888 and then worked at the court in Jelisawetgrad until 1893 and then at courts in Kamjanez-Podilskyj , Chișinău and from 1902 in Odessa . There he became a member of the Archaeological Society and made a name for himself with his work on German colonization in Ukraine , published in 1913 . At the 14th Archaeological Congress in Chernihiv in 1908, Shelukhin published a report on the legal significance of the name Ukraine .

In June 1917, Shelukhin was chairman of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee in Odessa and then until 1918 a member of the Central Na Rada in Kiev . Between January 31, 1918 and April 1918, he was Minister of Justice of the Ukrainian People's Republic , succeeding Valentyn Sadovsky , in the governments of Vsevolod Holubovych and Volodymyr Chekhivskyi . In the hetmanate he was state senator. During the peace negotiations with Soviet Russia , he headed the Ukraine delegation from May 23 to October 7, 1918, and took part in the Paris Peace Conference between December 1918 and April 1919 as legal advisor .

In 1919 he went into exile in Czechoslovakia and in 1921 became professor of criminal law at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague. Between 1928 and 1935 he was there as a full professor and from 1926 to 1928 and from 1935 to 1938 as vice rector. In 1924/25 he also taught law at the Ukrainian Pedagogical University Institute M. Drahomanow , was deputy chairman of the Ukrainian committee of Czechoslovakia and head of the Ukrainian legal society of Czechoslovakia. Scheluchin wrote, among other works on the laws Codex Russkaya Pravda , the history of Ukrainian law and the Ukraine international politics. He also wrote poetry under the pseudonym S. Pavlenko . Serhiy Scheluchin died in Prague at the age of 74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Serhiy Scheluchin in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Shelukhyn, Serhii in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 14, 2019
  3. ↑ Entry on Serhiy Scheluchin in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on February 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Scheluchin, Serhiy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheluchin, Serhiy Pavlovych (full name); Шелухін, Сергій Павлович (Ukrainian); Шелухин, Сергей Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian lawyer, historian, writer, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Denhy , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1938
Place of death Prague , Czechoslovakia