Ioffe Olympiad Solomonovich Biography

In December, in December, performances at a round table organized by the Law Faculty of IGUMO to study the influence of outstanding Russian legal scientists on the development of the legal culture of modern Russia O. Ioffe was born on January 21 of the year in the city of Sinelnikovo, Dnipropetrovsk Region, in a family of an employee. At the age of 15, the father of the scientist died, at the age of 19 - mother.

In the year, at the end of the secondary school, Olympiad Solomonovich arrived in Leningrad to continue his studies and entered the Law Institute. By the time of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, O. Ioffe had already graduated from three courses, showing vivid abilities for scientific research and one of the legal journals of that time was noted as a future legal scientist.

He spent the war years at the front. After demobilization, O. Ioffe returned to the institute, he graduated with brilliantly and began his teaching career at the Leningrad Law School, where he read the courses of the theory of law and civil law. At the age of 27, O. Ioffe defended his thesis on the topic: "The legal relationship on Soviet civil law." Seven years later, he prepared and defended his doctoral dissertation “Responsibility of Soviet Civil Law” Thus, at 34, O.

Ioffe became the youngest doctor of legal sciences. He received the title of professor at 37. The first published work helped O. Ioffe well known in all legal universities and scientific centers of the country. He is an outstanding scientist who made a huge contribution to the formation of Soviet civil law. In particular, the article “The limits of the exercise of subjective civil rights” was translated in the UK, and the “civilistic doctrine of feudalism” in France.

Ioffe gave a lot of effort to pedagogical work at the university. He was a talented lecturer, his lectures were collected by full audiences. In the academic year, he was awarded as the best lecturer of the law faculty. In his books, more than one generation of lawyers studied. It was the textbooks of O. Ioffe that served as the main guideline for young civilists in preparation for passing candidate exams in civil law and generally to study civil law science.

His students actively defended candidate and doctoral dissertations. Under his leadership, experts from different countries trained. Possessing English, German, French, O. in the discussion, which unfolded in years about the legality of the allocation of a special industry of “economic law”, O. Ioffe headed the camp of opponents of “economic law” and defended this position with all the heat of its polemical talent.

In the year, he was awarded the title of Dr. Honoris Ausa University of Lodzin. In the year, O. Ioffe was awarded the University Prize for the Monograph "Mandatory Law". In the city of Professor O. Ioffe, he left his homeland and accepted the invitation to work at Harvard University of the United States. A few years later, he took the position of life professor of the University of Connecticut in the city of Hartford.

All the years of stay in the United States, Ioffe worked hard and printed a lot. He received a prestigious American prize for his scientific works, published nine books and a large number of articles, participated in international legal forums many times. Almost all his works published abroad are devoted to the assessment, development, problems of Russian law.

He read four training course at the university: Soviet law, comparative law, Roman law and human law; He made reports at international conferences in the USA, Holland, Germany. Ioffe died on April 8 and was buried in the city of Farmington. The interests of O. Ioffe were not limited to modern civilism. He was occupied by the history of civilistic thought. The first publication on this topic, dedicated to the history of the civil law thought of ancient Rome, appeared in the year, and O.

Ioffe incorporated the results of his historical and cyvilistic studies in the book published in the United States of America in him also engaged in research on the general theory of law. The most significant of the theoretical and legal works of the scientist are: the monograph “issues of law” highly appreciated by the lawyers, published in G. together with M. Sharmor, and sections in the two-volume collective work “General theory of state and law”, Yura Sergey Yuryevich, actor, director, writer, poet, screenwriter, student of the Law Faculty of LSU in the GG.

He was bright and original in everything. He stood on a elevation, leaning his elbow on the pulpit. There was a shirt with a carelessly unbuttoned collar - this is with a generally accepted uniform: a jacket fastened to all buttons, and a tie. In the Roman law exam, one of our Germans suddenly completely forgot the Russian language, of course, of course, from ignorance of the subject and began to ec with a wild accent, hovering ...

“I am a crazy Kavar in Russian ... I don’t know how it is a skasat in Russian ...” And the Olympiads to him: “And you are not difficult, a colleague, I will answer Victor ...” Anisimov. Petrovich, lawyer, graduate of the law faculty of LSU G. And here is the first lecture on civil law. I well remember the building of the law faculty on the street.Smolny, house 3, lecture hall on the second floor.

The Olympiad Solomonovich went to the elevation and began his lecture with clarification of the subject and method of science of civil law, the importance of studying it for a lawyer, regardless of what specialization he will be engaged in the future. He accurately, impeccably and intelligibly formulated the idea that civil law is designed for logicians, and criminal law on romantics.

All my further professional activity, I only did the fact that I logically analyzed legal relations and always gratefully recalled O. Ioffe, who taught this. Guugel Vladimir Lvovich lawyer, the teacher was pleasant to his contagious laugh. From the first minute, he made the impression of a smart, witty person on us. He literally fascinated his interlocutor with his charm and powerful intellect.

To every word, to any situation, he had a joke on the topic. His encyclopedic education, knowledge in any field, shocked and fascinated us. They listened to him with open mouths. He went through the war. He knew perfectly several foreign languages.

No wonder Sergey Sergeyevich Alekseev in one of the American publications called O. Ioffe the pride of Russian legal science. The contribution of Professor Ioffe to the science of law, and civil law in particular, is invaluable. Despite everything, his works, his ideas and concepts to date are attracted by the closest attention of everyone who is engaged in legal science. Professor of the Olympiad Solomonovich Ioffe was and remains one of the most outstanding Russian jurists of the twentieth century.

A report made on a round table at the International Scientific and Practical Conference, held at the Law Faculty of IGUMO, Moscow on December 16, Moscow