Misplaced Pages

Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Russian criminologist (1874–1953)

Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet
Born(1874-07-24)24 July 1874
Ardatov, Russian Empire
Died16 January 1953(1953-01-16) (aged 78)
Moscow, Soviet Union
EducationDoctor of Science (1939)
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1897)
Occupation(s)Рrofessor of law
Imperial Moscow University
Moscow State University

Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Гернет; 24 July 1874 – 16 January 1953) was a Russian and Soviet criminologist and legal historian who is considered the founder of sociological criminology in Russia.

Gernet taught law at Moscow State University from 1897 on, where he notably opposed the death penalty and introduced the concept of resocialization into Russian criminal law scholarship. In 1911, he took up a post at the Psychoneurological Institute in Moscow. After the Russian Revolution and until his death, he taught at Moscow University again, where he contributed to the Stalinist legal codifications of the 1930s and developed a class-specific theory of law and crime, which influenced Mikhail Reisner among others.

References

  • Baberowski, Jörg (2001). "Gernet, Michajl Nikolaevič". In Michael Stolleis (ed.). Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (in German) (2nd ed.). München: Beck. p. 238. ISBN 3-406-45957-9.
  • Imperial Moscow University: 1755–1917: encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow: Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN). 2010. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-5-8243-1429-8.


Flag of Soviet UnionBiography icon

This Soviet biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This biographical article relating to law is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: