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Mikhail Andreevich Reisner (Russian: Михаил Андреевич Рейснер; 1868 in Vileyka – 1928) was a Russian scientist, lawyer, writer, social psychologist and historian. He was the father of Larisa Reisner.
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He graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw in 1893.
In 1893–1896, he taught, and in 1896 he was sent to Heidelberg, where he worked for two years. Between 1898 and 1903, he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tomsk .
Because of his Marxist views, he had to emigrate to Germany and France. In 1907, Reisner returned to the Russian Empire and became a lecturer at Saint Petersburg State University.
During World War I, together with his daughter Larisa, he produced the magazine "Rudin". After the October Revolution of 1917, he was appointed a professor at the University of Petrograd, where he helped to develop the first Soviet constitution. Reisner was one of the founders of the Communist Academy as a center of Marxist social science. Reisner was also one of the founders of the Russian Psychoanalytical Society and worked in the People's Commissariat for Education.