Vol. 21 No. 2 (2015): The golden age and crisis of classical scholarship in Europe and Russia – people, institutions, ideas (ca. 1870 – ca. 1930)
Articles

Russian Institute of Roman Law in Berlin in Light of I. A. Pokrovskij’s Scholarly Training

Andrey Vasilyev
Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum

Published 2016-03-18

Keywords

  • Berlin University,
  • I. A. Pokrowskij,
  • Russian Institute of Roman Law

How to Cite

Vasilyev, A. (2016). Russian Institute of Roman Law in Berlin in Light of I. A. Pokrovskij’s Scholarly Training. Hyperboreus, 21(2), 241-248. https://doi.org/10.36950/ZBPC9286

Abstract

The paper surveys a history of the Russian Institute of Roman Law in Berlin and of its influence on I. A. Pokrovskij, who were trained there and afterwards became one of the most famous Roman law scholars in Russia. The origins of this educational institution are traced and the opposition to it of Russian professorial body (N. P. Bogolepov, B. V. Nikolskij) examined. The author comes to the conclusion that the Institute advanced the scholarly contacts between Russia and Germany but was doomed to be short-lived, because it failed to meet the government political expectation.