Katkov, Mikhail Methodius

Born in 1861 in the family of the lawyer Methodius Nikiforovich Katkov (1820-1875) ^[2] , the brother of the famous conservative publicist M.N. Katkov .

He graduated from the Katkovsky Lyceum (1881) ^[3] .

In the 1890s, he taught Roman law at the Demidov Law Lyceum in Yaroslavl .

In 1901-1905 he was a class inspector at the Moscow Alexander Institute ^[4] . In 1904 he defended a master's thesis at Kiev University on the subject of “Succession in the right of inheritance in Roman and modern law”, in 1910 - a doctorate “The concept of lien in Roman law” (ibid.).

He was a professor of Roman law at Kiev University. He also taught at the Commercial Institute and at the Higher Women's Courses in Kiev.

In 1921 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia . He was one of the founders of the Russian Law Faculty in Prague , where he lectured on the history of Roman law.

He was buried at the Olshansky cemetery in Prague ^[5] .

• Lectures on Roman law delivered at Demidov Juridical Lyceum rev. Dr. Associate Professor M. M. Katkov in 1892/93 academic. year. - Yaroslavl: N. Vladimirov, 1892 .-- 382 p.
• Succession in inheritance under Roman and modern law (1904, master's thesis);
• The concept of lien in Roman law (1910, doctoral dissertation).

Children:

• George (1903-1985), historian of the Russian foreign countries, professor at the University of Oxford .
• Cyril (1905, Moscow - 1995, New York), icon painter, restorer ^{[6] [7]} .

• Curriculum Vitae