a story or a coinsidence

[avrelia]

I was reading the works of the famous Russian lawyer of the XIX century A.F. Koni, and, in the article on suicides, I came across the following two cases – one is of a 82 years old Russian priest, found dead with the Gospel of John open near the body and no explanations; another one is of a 82 years old Jewish man, found dead with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason open, also no note or anything. Both cases seemed to be suicides connected only by similar circumstances, but I imagine the story hiding behind…

also: he (Koni) keeps inserting quotes in Latin, German, French, English, Sanskrit... without translation. I feel very illiterate and uncouth.

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[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

he (Koni) keeps inserting quotes in Latin, German, French, English, Sanskrit... without translation.

Don't feel that way; it's a terribly arrogant way of underlining how erudite and sophisticated you are as a scholar, and I dislike it--at least with the languages I don't know, in this case, Sanskrit. & ;-)

No, seriously--it's fine to sprinkle your works with the appropriate citations, only you should add translations.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I don't feel too bad, really - espacially given the fact he is writing several times better than the modern jurists. I mean, where did that clear and beatiful language go? So I don't begrudge some intellectual arrogancy. Beside, he (and other jurists of that period ) was writing in the time of a different education standards, where law students were supposed to know enough of foreign languages.

On the other hand, the law students then rarely were supposed to female. (I think there was one educational institution in law for women in Moscow before the revolution, but I am not sure what were the career perspective of those women.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Good points, the ones mentioned above.

As for female law students, well, I fear it wasn't exactly easy for them--if it ain't simple even these days, I shudder to think of the days before that fateful October...

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I shudder to think of the days before that fateful October...

And, suddenly, a woman could be anything she wanted. Except for rich and powerful. Or anti-soviet.

I often wonder about history of the women's legal education. May be one day I will get curious enough to find out more on the subject. I know that in the later Soviet Uniion there were more than half of female judges. The same is now. But curiously, in the highest judiciary institutions (such as the Constitutional Court) the proportion is in favour of men.