Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIvan Jakovlevich Fojnickij
Russian lawyer
Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1847
Place of Birth: Gomel, Belarus
Date of Death: 19-Sep-1913
Profession: lawyer
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij
- Ivan Jakovlevich Fojnickij (Russian: ???? ????????? ?????????) (1847–1913) was a leading theorist of criminal law in the late Russian Empire. In 1877, Fojnickij was appointed senior public prosecutor in Saint Petersburg.
- He was also the chairman of the Russian section of the International Union of Criminologists and taught law at the Saint Petersburg State University from 1881 onwards. A liberal constitutionalist and a follower of Franz von Liszt's theory of criminal law, Fojnickij was one of the principal advocates of criminal justice reform in Russia.
- The modernised Russian penal code of 1903 as well as the introduction of suspended sentences and prison labour in Russia trace back to proposals of his.
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