Vaskovsky biography

His father, an impoverished Polish noble Catholic, served as a jury attorney. Mother also came from the Polish noble family. After the first Odessa treasury gymnasium in the year with the Golden Medal, Vaskovsky entered the law faculty of Novorossiysk University. At the end of the university training course, he followed in the footsteps of his father and in years he worked as a jury for civil matters.

In a biographical essay on Vaskovsky, lawyer and historian, professor of Moscow State University Vladimir Tomsinov indicates that “it is possible to engage in practical activity at the end of the university by material need, namely that his parents could not provide their son with means of continuing their studies. But it is likely that Vaskovsky wanted to acquire practical experience with the work necessary for the science of civil law as a lawyer.

His first scientific work - written in collaboration with a classmate A. Bugaevsky - was called in this regard very remarkable: “Typical civil affairs” ”[1]. Criticism of the advocacy. The dissertation in the year in St. Petersburg was published by the first of the largest works of Vaskovsky-“The Organization of the Bar”. After analyzing the state of the Russian advocacy, which developed by the beginning of the 19th years of the XIX century, he expressed a number of practical recommendations for the correction of vices in its organization and activity.

So, he stated that the combination of human arms with a judicial representation characteristic of the jury in Russia leads to the vulgaration of the lawyer profession [2]. After this work was released, Vaskovsky decided to appeal to the Council of the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University with a petition to be allowed to protect this essay as a dissertation for the degree of a master of civil law.

Having received a refusal for formal reasons, he decided to try again and enlisted the support of the young, but already gaining authority in the scientific circles of Gabriel Shershenevich, who at that time taught at Kazan University and helped the Odessa lawyer achieve admission. The dissertation was successfully protected. The publication of civilian textbooks after the successful defense of the dissertation in Kazan Vaskovsky went on a scientific business trip to Western Europe in the year.

Lectures on the philosophy and jurisprudence of leading European lawyers at universities in Germany and France had a great influence on its academic evolution. Studying in the libraries a huge number of works on jurisprudence, he simultaneously worked on a civil law textbook and translated the works of foreign scientists into Russian. In the year, Vaskovsky published the first issue of “Civil Law Textbook”, dedicated to a common part of civilics.

Two years later, in the year, the second release of a textbook was published in St. Petersburg, which considered institutions of property law. The scientist himself characterized this work as “a textbook that contains a concise outline of civil law theory with runaway instructions for foreign codes and literature and a more detailed presentation of the current Russian legislation in connection with the interpretations of domestic lawyers and cassation” [3].

This work was followed by magnificent responses. Thus, a positive review in the “Journal of the St. Petersburg Law Society” for the first issue of the “Civil Law Textbook” Vaskovsky was given by lawyer and lawyist Alexander Bashmakov, who personally knew the author and his father for work in the Odessa advocacy. Vaskovsky is a valuable acquisition for our literature, ”the review said [4].

The textbook received a positive review of Shershenevich himself. Repressions and justice after the next work of Vaskovsky on the lawyer “The main issues of lawyer ethics” was the light in the year, he was finally admitted to the defense of the master's the dissertation on the topic “Organization of the advocacy”. And in the year he successfully defended her, being awarded the degree of master of civil law.

Then he receives the position of Privat-Tocontocus on the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure at the University of Novorossiysk, but without the right to teach. In the year, Vaskovsky defended a doctoral dissertation at the Law Faculty of Kazan University on the topic “Civilist methodology: the doctrine of the interpretation and application of civil laws”.

The work received rather ambiguous reviews, criticized that she even led to the public controversy of Vaskovsky with Professor Alexander Zagorovsky. In this regard, the appointment of Vaskovsky with an extraordinary professor of the University of Novorossiysk was a little delayed. However, in the year, he nevertheless received the desired position at the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure in his Alma Mater.

Two years later, Vaskovsky was elected vice -rector for working with students, but did not hold this position for long.In February, Vaskovsky, on the basis of the decision of the Criminal Cassation Department of the Government Senate, was detached from the post of vice -rector of the Novorossiysk University with an prohibition of consisting in the public service for three years.

It is believed that the reason for the resignation was the unwillingness of Vaskovsky to take repressive measures against students who took part in the events of the years. Students and teachers of the University expressed their protest against the trial of the professor, but he did not give a result [5]. In the year, on the basis of theoretical studies of the “Civil Procedure” work, the first edition of the main work “Civil Procedure Textbook” appeared, which again received approving reviews of famous lawyers.

This is the first classic domestic textbook on civil procedural law. After the February Revolution, the Minister of Education Alexander Manuilov restored Vaskovsky as an ordinary professor at the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure. The Bolsheviks treated the scientist as a victim of the tsarist regime, which allowed him to occupy the position of dean of the law faculty until the closing of the Novorossiysk University of the year in the year.

In parallel, Vaskovsky acted as a justice of the peace until the liquidation of the system of magistrates [6]. The Polish period of opinions regarding the events in Vaskovsky’s life in the years diverge from researchers. It is only known for certain that in the fall of the year after a series of unsuccessful attempts to fill out vacant positions at the Department of Civil Law, the leadership of the Vilnius Vilnius University on the recommendation of Professor of the University of Warsaw Karol Lutostansky turned to Vaskovsky.

In his letter, Lutostan gave the highest assessment of his knowledge and pedagogical skill. In March, the Council of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences elected Vaskovsky as a professor at the Department of Civil Law. The University Council on May 30 of the year confirmed this election, and on July 28, the President of Poland approved the scientist in his position [7]. During the years, Vaskovsky held the post of dean of the Faculty of Law, and then up to a year and retirement - the post of deputy dean, issued several manuals and scientific publications of a monographic nature, among which it was especially necessary to note the textbook on the civil process, which represented the presentation of the course of lectures on the University of Vilnius.

Since the year, he regularly met in the codification commission of the Polish Republic. In the period from for the year, many of his works on civil law and the process of Poland saw the light. The scientist took part in the work of the Legal Council of the Ministry of Justice of Poland and the Codification Commission, conducted active legal education, very important for the state with the transitional legal system, as Poland was between world wars.

He actively published articles on various, primarily civil issues in the Polish periodical-in Warsaw, Vilna, Lviv [8]. In the year, Vaskovsky was elected a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Knowledge Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, which has existed in Krakow since the year. According to the information given in the twelfth volume of Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna Pwn Warszawa, Vaskovsky died on May 29 in the Nazi Varsawa [9].

Vaskovsky’s scientific heritage retains its relevance today. It is no accident that his works are reprinted in Russia, and in Poland the question is raised about the reprinting of the Polish part of the scientist's creative heritage. The future of Russian advocacy. Moscow, Br. Bashmakov, G. in 2 volumes. Volume 2. Zanchevsky and E. Vaskovsky »Foundation Outstanding representative of the Odessa School of Law E.

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