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Apr 01, 1868 Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine Died on 14 Jan 1920 (aged 51)
Russian legal scholar
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About Vladimir Matveevich Gessen
- Vladimir Matveevich Gessen (Russian: ?????´??? ?????´???? ??´????; 13 April [O.S.
- 1 April] 1868 – 14 January 1920) was a Russian jurist and politician.
- He was the country's first theoretician of constitutional law and was instrumental for the spread of the idea of constitutional, representative government in Russia. Gessen taught constitutional and administrative law at the St.
- Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, edited the liberal journals Pravo and Vestnik Prava and served as a Constitutional Democrat representative to the Duma. A proponent of natural law, Gessen's scholarly work was strongly influenced by German constitutional theory.
- He advocated the establishment of a representative democracy with checks and balances governed by the rule of law, and assigned particular importance to the guarantees of personal freedom and private property during the transition phase.
