Michal Pius Romer ( lit. Mykolas Romeris , April 25 (May 7), 1880, the village of Bagdonishki, Novoaleksandrovsky Uyezd, Kovensk Province, now the village of Panevezhskoye, Lithuania - February 22, 1945) is a Russian , Polish and Lithuanian lawyer, journalist, and political activist.
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Biography
He came from the noble family of Romerov . He was educated at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , where he studied in 1901-1902, and at the Paris School of Political Science (1902-1905). In 1911-1915 he worked in the editorial office of the Nasha Niva publication, in 1913 - also in the editorial office of the Kurier Krajowy newspaper in Vilnius. Headed the Vilnius Masonic Lodge “Lithuania”. He supported the ideas of Belarusian and Lithuanian nationalism, he was one of the main ideologists of the liberal-democratic wing of the Krai people movement. In 1913-1915 he put forward the theory of the creation of a new Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the form of a confederation of Poland and “historical Lithuania,” with each of the countries becoming an independent and democratic state.
In 1915 (during the First World War) he joined the legions of Jozef Pilsudski, in 1919, on behalf of the latter, he held negotiations with the Lithuanian leadership on the creation of a confederation with Poland in Kaunas, which ended in failure. In 1920, he opposed the occupation of Vilnius by the troops of the Polish general Lucian Zheligovsky and left for Lithuania. In 1922 he became a professor of law at Kaunas University, in 1927-1928 and 1933-1939 he was its rector. After the return of Vilnius to Lithuania, he moved to Vilnius University, where he worked until the end of his life, both after the establishment of Soviet power in Lithuania and during the occupation by Nazi Germany. During the occupation, he organized secret university courses in Vilnius and participated in the Resistance movement.
In 2004, Vilnius Law University was named after him.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119478560 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
Links
- Rector Prof. Mykolas RIOMERIS (1927-1928, 1933-1939) / RECTORS OF KTU - Biography