Historical FigureMale
Maksim Kowalewski
1851 – 1916
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryMaksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky was a jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and president (1905) of the International Institute of Sociology. He also held a chair in sociology at the Psycho-Neurological Institute. Kovalevsky was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914. The Russian Sociological Society adopted his name in 1916.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
September 8, 1851
Kharkov Governorate
Date of death
April 5, 1916
Saint Petersburg
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Occupations & fields
anthropologistlegal historiansociologisthistorianprofessorjournalist
- Field and occupation
- ukrajinský historik, etnograf a politický aktivista
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