Novgorodtsev, Pavel Ivanovich (1866–1924)

Russian jurist and philosopher. He advocated the revival of the doctrine of natural law, stressing the independent validity of the moral evaluation of social and political events.

He was professor at the universities of Moscow 1903–18 and Simferopol 1920–21 and dean of the Russian Juridical Faculty in Prague 1922–24.

His chief works are The Historical School of Jurists (1897), Kant's and Hegel's Teachings on Law and State (1902), The Crisis of Contemporary Legal Consciousness (1909), The Political Ideals of the Ancient and Modern World (1910), and On the Social Ideal (1917). He edited the symposium Problems of Idealism (1903), which was a landmark in the history of Russian thought.