Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradov

Statut : Oxford Professor Jurisprudence

18.11.1854-19.12.1925

Notes : Born in Kostroma, about 200 miles north-east of Moscow, Vinogradoff entered Moscow University at the age of sixteen to study history under Vasilii Klyuchevskii. After postgraduate studies with Theodor Mommsen and Heinrich Brunner in Berlin, Vinogradoff wrote a doctoral thesis on the feudal land law in England, published under the title 'Villainage in England: essays in English mediaeval history' (Russian, 1887, English 1892). It gained him a professorship at Moscow University and remains one of the most important works on the subject. He decided to leave Russia for England in 1901 due to the deteriorating conditions for academics under the tsarist government and was elected to the Corpus chair of jurisprudence at Oxford University in 1903. Vinogradoff traced his interest in legal and agrarian history to Russia’s experience of peasant emancipation in the 1860s. Like many historians in late tsarist Russia, he considered the past as a potential resource in solving the ills of the present. [CM]

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