Vladimir Matveevich Gessen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Matveevich Gessen

Russian legal scholar

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1868

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 14-Jan-1920

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.



Alternative names	Karl Karlovich Bulla; Karl Ostwald Bulla
Description	Russian photographer
Date of birth/death	26 February 1855	2 December 1929
Location of birth/death	Free City of Lübeck	Saaremaa, Estonia
Work period	1875–1929
Authority control	: Q71438 VIAF: 47816070 ISNI: 0000 0000 6682 6359 ULAN: 500058523 LCCN: n94088885 GND: 128529296 WorldCat