Konstantin Nevolin

Russian historian
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IntroRussian historian
PlacesRussia
wasHistorian
Work fieldSocial science
Gender
Male
Birth1 July 1806, Orlov, Russia
Death6 October 1855Brixen im Thale, Austria (aged 49 years)
Star signCancer
Education
Moscow Theological Academy
Awards
Constantin Medal 
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class 
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class 
Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class 
Demidov Prize1854
The details

Biography

Konstantin Alekseevich Nevolin (1806–1855) was a Russian legal historian.

Academic career

He started his academic Career as a professor of law in Berlin in 1829. In 1834 he returned to Kiev after he was appointed rector of the newly setup University of Kiev. Later he also served as a professor of law at the Saint Petersburg State University from 1843.

Monographs

Nevolin compiled his two-volume Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence (vols. 1–2, 1839–40), on the history of government. It was heavily influenced by Hegel's Philosophy of Right His other monographs include History of Russian Civil Laws (vols. 1–3, 1851), The Formation of Governmental Administration in Russia From Ivan III up to Peter the Great (1844), On the Novgorod Piatiny and Pogosty in the XVI Century (1853) and A General List of Russian Cities (1844).

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