Spektorsky, Evgeny Vasilievich

Born in the family of a justice of the peace. Mother is of Swiss descent, thanks to her, from childhood she knew French and German well. He graduated from high school in Radom .

In 1898 he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Imperial University of Warsaw . After graduation, he was left at the department of state law to prepare for a professorship. The degree of candidate of law received for the work "Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a political writer." In 1901-1903 he was on a scientific trip abroad.

Since 1913 - Professor at Kiev University of St. Vladimir . In 1918 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law, and later rector of the University of Kiev .

In 1920 he emigrated. He lived in Czechoslovakia , where he was a teacher at the Russian Law Faculty in Prague . Then he moved to Yugoslavia , where he was a professor at the University of Belgrade and the University of Ljubljana (1930-1945). In 1934 he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences .

After the end of World War II, he moved to the United States . Since 1947 - professor at the Orthodox St. Vladimir Theological Seminary in New York . The first chairman of the Russian Academic Group in the United States .

He died in New York on March 3, 1951 .

• On the issue of systematization in social science. Warsaw , 1903;
• Organic theory of society. Warsaw, 1904;
• Essays on the philosophy of social sciences. Warsaw, 1907;
• Ergard Weigel, the forgotten rationalist of the 17th century. Warsaw, 1909;
• Physicism in social philosophy of the XVII century. Yaroslavl , 1909;
• The problem of social physics in the XVII century. T. 1. Warsaw, 1910; T. 2. Kiev, 1917;
• A. L. Blok, state expert and philosopher. Warsaw, 1911;
• The concept of society in the ancient world. Study on the semantics of social science. Warsaw, 1911;
• Belinsky and Westernism. Warsaw, 1912;
• To the question of the system of the "Spirit of Laws" Montesquieu and its philosophical sources. Yaroslavl, 1912;
• To the dispute about the philosophy of law. M., 1914;
• The natural law of the Protestant authors of the XVI century. Yaroslavl, 1914;
• The origin of Protestant rationalism. Warsaw, 1914;
• Protestantism and rationalism in the XVI and XVII centuries. Warsaw, 1914;
• Nominalism and realism in the social sciences. M., 1915;
• Manuals for lectures on the history of philosophy of law. Saratov , 1916;
• The theory of solidarity. M., 1916;
• What is a constitution? M., 1917;
• The problem of social physics in the XVII century. T. 1, 2. Warsaw, 1917;
• State. 1918;
• Christianity and culture. 1925;
• The beginnings of science about the state and society. 1927;
• Chekhov. Belgrade, 1930;
• State and life. 1931;
• History of social physics. (2 volumes, 1932 and 1938, in Slovenian.);
• Liberalism. Ljubljana , 1935.

• Spektorsky / V.P. Filatov // New Philosophical Encyclopedia : in 4 volumes / before. scientific ed. Council V. S. Styopin . - 2nd ed., Rev. and add. - M .: Thought , 2010 .-- 2816 p.
• Mikhalchenko S.I. Documents of E.V.Spektorsky in the Archive of the Institute of Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen // Domestic archives . - 2011. - No. 6. - S. 64-68.
• Mikhalchenko S.I. , Tkachenko E.V. Evgeny Vasilievich Spectorsky // Questions of history . - 2013. - No. 1. - S. 31-53.

• E. V. Spektor-philosopher and culturologist
• The problem of social physics in the XVII century. T. 1, A New Worldview and a New Theory of Science
• Profile on the website of the Serbian Academy of Sciences