Grimm, David Davidovich

After graduating from the law department of the Imperial St. Petersburg University in 1885, he served for a while in the Senate , and then was sent abroad to Berlin , where he studied Roman law under the direction of G. Dernburg , Eck and Pernis .

In September 1889 he was accepted as a privat-docent of the University of Dorpat .

From 1894 he began to read Roman law at St. Petersburg University; since 1899 - extraordinary, since 1901 - ordinary professor . In 1906, Grimm was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law, and on March 1, 1910, he assumed the position of Rector of St. Petersburg University, which he left as early as 1911 (his place was replaced by his brother Prof. E. D. Grimm), and on August 3, 1913 he was He was also dismissed by the Ministry of Public Education as a professor under the pretext of transferring to Kharkov University , where he refused to go.

In the years 1891-1905, Grimm was also a teacher and professor at the School of Law , and in the years 1896-1906 he read the law encyclopedia at the Military Law Academy . Since 1906, he, at the same time, was a professor at the Higher Women's Courses .

Since 1907 - Member of the State Council on Elections from the Academy of Sciences and Russian universities. Since January 1, 1910 - State Councilor .

From the beginning of the Great War, both his sons were drafted into the army, and the youngest — Konstantin — died at the front.

After the February Revolution, on March 16, 1917, he was appointed Commissioner of the Provisional Government above the State Chancellery and the Office to accept petitions.

In September 1919 he was arrested, but a few days later released on bail. In February 1920, with the help of friends, he crossed the border with Finland. Having settled in Helsinki, he became an active participant in the anti-Bolshevik movement, and was in active contact with the Petrograd underground, for example, with the Tagantsevo organization. He took part in the work of the National Center, headed the newspaper "New Russian Life". Since the end of 1920, Grimm was the representative of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General Baron P.N. Wrangel and the Paris Council of Ambassadors. Later he became a member of the Russian National Committee (1921-1940) with a center in Paris.

In 1922, the "New Russian life" due to lack of funds ceased to exist. The recent collapse of the Kronstadt uprising and the defeat of the anti-Bolshevik underground in Petrograd did not inspire optimism. Grimm realized that his further stay in Finland did not make any sense, and he decided to return to his professorship.

According to some reports, he went first to Paris and then to Berlin. In the same 1922, Grimm moved to Czechoslovakia , where he was a professor of civil law (1922-1927) and dean (1924-1927) of the Russian Law Faculty in Prague .

From August 12, 1927 - Professor of Roman Law at the University of Tartu , where he worked until retirement in 1934.

Grimm remained in Estonia, probably until the end of 1938 - the beginning of 1939. Then he moved to his son Ivan in the capital of Latvia, Riga. Professor D.D. died. Grimm July 29, 1941 in Riga and buried at the Pokrovsky cemetery.

He was married on May 17, 1893 to Vera Ivanovna Dityatin (1858-1930), née Goldenberg, widow of ordinary professor at the University of Dorpat Ivan Ivanovich Dityatin (1847-1892). Children: Ivan (1891-1971) (adopted), Constantine (1894-?) (Died in the Great War at the front). The bride for the eldest son - Karamzin, Maria Vladimirovna .

• "Essays on the doctrine of enrichment" (I, II, III, 1891 - 93) (master's thesis),
• "Fundamentals of the theory of legal transaction in the modern German doctrine of pandection law" (1900; doctoral dissertation),
• "The course of the Roman law", I (1904) ,
• "Lectures on the dogma of Roman law" (3rd ed., 1910),
• Memories. From the life of the State Council. 1907-1917 SPb .: Nestor-History. 2017

Articles

• On the question of the nature of ownership under Roman law // Journal of the St. Petersburg Legal Society, 1894, № 8
• On the question of the concept and source of binding legal norms // Journal of the Ministry of Justice ( JLJ ), 1896, № 6
• Legal Relationship and Subjective Law // JMO, 1897, No. 4 and 5
• On the subject of legal subjects // Bulletin of Law, 1904, № 9 and 10
• On the issue of objects of law // Vestnik Prava, 1905, No. 7 and 8
• To the question of the relationship of civil law institutions with the economic life of the people // ZMYu, 1907, № 8
• University reform // Law, 1906, No. 9-11
• On the issue of continuity of legislative works // Law, 1912, No. 49 and 50
• Visible legality and hidden discretion of St. Petersburg University with the Ministry of Education - St. Petersburg: Bulletin of Europe, 1913. - p. 271-288

• Tomsinov V. A. David Davidovich Grimm (1864–1941) // Russian jurists of the XVIII-XX centuries: Essays on life and work. In 2 volumes (Volume 2). - M. , 2007. - p. 222-252. - 672 s. - (“Russian legal heritage”). - 1000 copies - ISBN 978-5-8078-0145-6 .
• Grimm, David Davidovich // The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• Sosnitsky D.A., Rostovtsev E.A. Grimm David Davidovich // Biography of St. Petersburg State University
• Grimm David Davidovich