Vasily Nikolajewitsch Leschkow

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Wassili Nikolajewitsch Leschkow ( Russian Василий Николаевич Лешков ; * August 2, July / August 14,  1810 greg. In Medwjodowo, Ujesd Starodub ; † January 21, July / February 2,  1881 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian lawyer and university teacher .

Life

Leschkow, the son of a church servant , received his first education at home, attended the Ujesd clerical school from 1820 and then the Chernigov clerical seminary (1825–1829). He then studied at the St. Petersburg Higher Education Institute , graduating in 1835 with a silver medal. He was then sent to the University of Berlin for further studies , where he heard the lectures of Friedrich Carl von Savigny , August Wilhelm Heffter and Leopold von Ranke and where Timofei Nikolajewitsch Granowski also studied at this time . After two years in Berlin , he attended the universities of Leipzig , Prague and Vienna , where he not only attended lectures, but also worked in the libraries and improved his knowledge of Greek , Latin , German , French and English .

After his return in January 1839 Leschkow was adjunct of the law faculty of the University of Moscow and gave lectures on the jus gentium . In May 1839 he became Secretary of the Council of the Law Faculty. In 1840 he married Yelisaveta Semjonovna Doroshevich, with whom he had 6 children.

In 1841 Leschkow successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the beginnings of neutrality in relation to maritime trade. In 1842 he became an associate professor. In 1843 he began a lecture on the state's wealth, not limiting himself to national law, and at the same time gave a lecture in the form of a legal encyclopedia. In 1845 he became a full professor at Moscow University. He taught his students that the state is not the guardian of private individuals, but that company law must lead to the interaction between private individuals and communities. He was a strong advocate of local government . In addition to his university activities , he published essays in the Moskvitjanin and in the Legal Notes .

In 1847 Leschkov was appointed censor in the Moscow Censorship Committee. From this activity his relationship with Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol resulted .

Leschkov's work on the Russian people and the state was nominated for the Demidov Prize . However, the review by Westerner Iwan Efimowitsch Andrejewski prevented the award of the award. The work received a lot of attention from the Slavophiles . In particular, Alexei Stepanowitsch Chomjakow and Ivan Dmitrijewitsch Beljajew emphasized the importance of this work.

Leschkow was several times Dean of the Law Faculty of Moscow University (1863-1866, 1869-1872, 1877-1880). In 1864 Leschkow became an Honored Professor at Moscow University. In 1865 he and others founded the Moscow Legal Society, of which he was chairman and most active member.

Leschkov's re-election as dean in 1866 led to the so-called professors' revolt of Professors FM Dmitrijew , BN Tschitscherin , MN Kapustin , SM Solovyov , SA Ratschinsky and other liberal professors of Moscow University against the re-election of the dean and the interference of the Ministry of Popular Education in this university matter.

1871-1880 Leschkow was the Juriditscheski Westnik . In 1875 he helped to convene the first congress of Russian lawyers. He was Membre associé of the Royal Society for Nordic Classics in Copenhagen . Leschkow was a voting member of the Zemstvo of the Moscow Governorate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Лешков, Василий Николаевич . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 10 , 1914, pp. 364–367 ( [1] accessed December 11, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b c W. M. Netschajew : Лешков (Василий Николаевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XVIIa, 1896, p. 618–619 ( [2] accessed December 11, 2017).
  3. ↑ Летопись Московского университета: Лешков Василий Николаевич (accessed December 11, 2017).
  4. ↑ Историческое исследование начал нейтралитета относительно морской торговли . Унив. тип., Moscow 1841 ( [3] accessed December 11, 2017).
  5. ↑ Русский народ и государство . Унив. тип., Moscow 1858 ( [4] accessed December 11, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Leschkow, Wassili Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лешков, Василий Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Medvjodowo, Ujesd Starodub
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1881
Place of death Moscow