Feodor Bause
Feodor Bause | |
|---|---|
Фёдор Григорьевич Баузе | |
| Rector of Moscow University | |
| In office 13 July 1807 – 1808 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 June 1752 Triptis, Saxony |
| Died | 25 May 1812 (aged 59) Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Education | Leipzig University (1773) |
| Occupation | Jurist, legal historian, collector |
| Military service | |
| Rank | State councillor (1809) |
Feodor Grigoryevich Bause (also transliterated Fyodor Bause; Фёдор Григорьевич Баузе; 30 June 1752 – 25 May 1812) was a German-born Russian jurist, historian of law and collector of early printed books, Slavic-Russian manuscripts and Russian coins, who served as rector of Moscow University from 1807 to 1808.[1]
Early life and education
Bause, the son of a pastor, was born on 30 June 1752 in Triptis, in Saxony.[2] He graduated from the law faculty of Leipzig University in 1773 and moved that same year to Saint Petersburg, where he taught at the Petrischule and, in 1781, became a member of the Free Economic Society.[2]
Academic career at Moscow University
In 1782, Bause was invited by Moscow University to take up a professorship of law and moved to Moscow.[2] He served as an ordinary professor at the chair of universal jurisprudence in the law faculty from 1782 to 1783 and again from 1786 to 1804, and was elected the faculty's first official dean (1803–1804).[1] In 1783, for reasons that remain unclear, he was compelled to resign from the university and moved to Germany, but returned to Russia three years later, in 1786, resuming his former post; from 1787 he began teaching a course on the history and methodology of the sciences and arts within the philosophy faculty, and the following academic year began lecturing law students on legal encyclopaedia.[citation needed] He was a member of the Moscow Friendly Learned Society.[citation needed]
In the early 1800s, alongside jurisprudence, Bause also taught the history of Russian literature, the history of diplomacy, and numismatics.[citation needed] He went on to serve as professor of the chair of the laws of the most noble ancient and modern peoples (1804–1811) and as dean of the department of moral and political sciences (1805–1806), while simultaneously directing Moscow's Pedagogical Institute from 1804 to 1809.[1]
Bause was elected a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1801, becoming the first Moscow University professor honoured with an academic title of this kind.[1] He was a member of the committee formed in 1802 to draft new statutes for the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy and Moscow University.[1]
Bause held a broad view of jurisprudence, regarding its task not as the casuistic interpretation of disparate laws but as the search for the higher, guiding principles of law.[1] Studying the history of enlightenment in Russia from the earliest times, he argued that pre-Petrine Russia had possessed its own culture and its own enlightenment.[1]
Rector of Moscow University
Bause was confirmed as rector of Moscow University on 13 July 1807.[citation needed] His year in office was marked by the granting of "Imperial" status to the Moscow Society of Naturalists, the enrichment of the university's library and museum collections with valuable items, and the publication by the university press of works by its authors intended to benefit the national economy.[1] In 1811, he left Moscow University following disagreements with its curator, Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov.[1]
Collections and personal interests
Bause was an avid collector of manuscripts, early printed Russian books and coins; his rich collection of Russian antiquities, whose catalogue described rarities dating to the early 13th century, was destroyed in the fire of Moscow in 1812.[2][3] He was also a keen lover and skilled performer of music, playing the organ, including during church services he continued to attend as a professor.[3]
Death
Bause died in Moscow on 25 May 1812.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "ЭС: Ф.Г.Баузе" (in русский). Moscow University Chronicle (letopis.msu.ru). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Баузе Фёдор Григорьевич" (in русский). Moscow Encyclopedia (dic.academic.ru). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "БАУЗЕ Федор Григорьевич (1752-1812)" (in русский). Artpanorama.su. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
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