Włodzimierz Spasowicz
Włodzimierz Spasowicz (born January 16, 1829 in Rzeczyca ( Minsk Governorate ), † October 27, 1906 in Warsaw ) was a Polish legal scholar, defense attorney and literary historian.
Spasowicz studied law in Saint Petersburg , was professor of criminal law at the university there until 1862, then lecturer at the law school there. As a result of his "Textbook of Criminal Law" (Petersburg 1863, Russian), however, he lost this position and worked as a well-known lawyer in Petersburg from 1866, especially known for his appearance as a defender in the high treason and nihilist trials. Spasowicz had been the editor of the monthly Ateneum published in Warsaw since 1876, wrote the section on Polish literature in Pipin's "History of Slavonic Literature" (German, Leipzig 1883) and wrote numerous monographs on this subject. Spasowicz is considered to be the head of a party which sought a Polish-Russian understanding on a liberal basis; for this he advertised by name, albeit with little success, in the Polish weekly " Kraj " founded by him in 1883 , which appeared in Petersburg.
Web links
- Literature by and about Włodzimierz Spasowicz in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Spasowicz, Włodzimierz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spasowicz, Vladimir (Meyers); Spasovich; Vladimir Danilovich; Spasovic, Vladimir D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish lawyer and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rzeczyca , now Belarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1906 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |