Dmitry Ivanovich Meyer – a person that marks the epoch

L.T. Bakulina^*, D.Kh. Valeev^**, I.A. Tarkhanov^***

Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

E-mail: ^*bltkfu@mail.ru, ^**valeev55@gmail.com, ^***itarhanov@mail.ru

Received June 11, 2019

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2019.4.8-29

For citation: Bakulina L.T., Valeev D.Kh., Tarkhanov I.A. Dmitry Ivanovich Meyer – a person that marks the epoch. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2019, vol. 161, no. 4, pp. 8–29. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2019.4.8-29. (In Russian)

Abstract

This paper reviews the key periods in the life of Dmitrii Ivanovich Meyer, the famous Russian civilist, the establisher of the main principles of civil law science in Russia, Professor of Imperial Kazan University, and the founder of the Russian Civil Law School and the Kazan Law School. We have reconstructed his image based on the data from various literary sources, letters of his contemporaries, and archival documents, all describing his research and social activities.

The study is based on the documents from the archives of Kazan and St. Petersburg Universities. The purpose of the investigation is a detailed analysis of D.I. Meyer’s life. His will, the main results from his dissertation “On the Ancient Russian Right of Pledge” for receiving a doctoral degree, the story told by him about his Master’s dissertation, and complete bibliography have been discussed.

Keywords: Dmitrii Ivanovich Meyer, Kazan University, civil law, legal clinic, biography, law school, civil law science

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