Maksim Kovalevsky

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Kovalevsky in 1906

Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (Russian: Максим Максимович Ковалевский; 8 September 1851 – 5 April 1916) was a jurist and the main authority on

Psycho-Neurological Institute. Kovalevsky was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914. The Russian Sociological Society
adopted his name in 1916.

Life

Maksim Kovalevsky was born into the Ukrainian noble family of Kovalevsky and spent his childhood in a manor near

Masonic movement
, contributing to its revival in Russia.

After 1878, he read lectures in law at the

Frederick Engels. Minister Ivan Delyanov
did not approve of Kovalevsky's liberal views. In 1886, Kovalevsky was kicked out of the university and then settled in Western Europe, where he came to know all major sociologists and anthropologists of his day.

His cousin's widow, mathematician

University of Stockholm. He is portrayed as her lover and fiancé in the Soviet film "Sofia Kovalevskaya" (1985) and in "Too Much Happiness" (2009), a short story by Alice Munro published in the August 2009 issue of Harper's Magazine. Sofia was "adamant that she would not marry Maksim, fearing that if she did, he would begin to take her for granted and look for a mistress".[1]
They parted in 1890 and she died from influenza the following year.

After the

Nobel peace prize. He was scheduled to take part in the peace negotiations for ending World War I but died in April 1916. The crowd that had attended the funeral at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra
was enormous.

Freemasonry

Initiated to three craft degree March 14, 1888, in Paris, in the Russian lodge "Cosmos". January 9, 1906, member of Lodge "Revival". To other sources - member of the Lodge "Cosmos" before 1915.

Worshipful Master Lodge "Renaissance".[3]

Ideas

Among Kovalevsky's contributions to Russian jurisprudence and social science was a new

Georgy Plekhanov
.

As a scholar Kovalevsky was a

progress as one of the inexorable laws of history. For him progress was "the constant expansion of the environment of peaceful coexistence from tribal unity through patriotism to cosmopolitanism".[4]

According to Kovalevsky, economic relations are bound to expand ever further, and the growth of international trade "would bring about the economic integration of the whole world, eliminating the causes of war, and ultimately lead to a world federation of democratic states".[4] Progress depends on population growth as its main driving force.

See also

References

  1. ^ Quoted from: Vadim B. Kuznetsov. The Kowalewsky Property. American Mathematical Soc., 2002. Page 18.
  2. ^ http://samisdat.com/5/23/523f-kos.htm
  3. ^ http://samisdat.com/5/23/523r-voz.htm
  4. ^ a b c Quoted from: Andrzej Walicki. A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism. Stanford University Press, 1979. Pages 367–368.

Further reading

  • Leo Pasvolsky, "M.M. Kovalevsky", in The Russian Review, Volume 1, No. 5 (June 1916), pp. 259–268 (available at Wikisource)
  • Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia. Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2000.
    ISBN 978-1-58477-017-6
  • Russian Political Institutions: The Growth and Development of These Institutions from the Beginnings of Russian History to the Present Time. University of Chicago Press (1902).
  • Alexander F. Tsvirkun, history and legal and political scientist. Kharkiv 2007

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