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Dr Nicholas Sergueievich Timasheff

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Dr Nicholas Sergueievich Timasheff

Birth
Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia
Death
9 Mar 1970 (aged 83)
New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Doctor Nicholas Sergueievich Timasheff, a world renowned scholar in the field of theoretical law, criminology, a pioneer in the field of probation and founder of the discipline of "Sociology of Law". He was the author of 18scholarly books, translated into 16 languages, over 200 scholarly articles, 700-800 reviews and over 2000 newspaper articles. He was a professor and a youngest dean at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Sorbonne, Cambridge, Harvard, Berkeley, Fordham Graduate School and gave hundreds of lectures in major universities of the Western world. As Fullbright exchange professor , he taught American sociology in Holland and introduced their very advanced probation system to the United States. His work: "Sociological Theory": its Nature and Growth" was a university best-seller for many years. He was also the first person to publish a work about religious persecutions in Soviet Union.
Doctor Nicholas Sergueievich Timasheff, a world renowned scholar in the field of theoretical law, criminology, a pioneer in the field of probation and founder of the discipline of "Sociology of Law". He was the author of 18scholarly books, translated into 16 languages, over 200 scholarly articles, 700-800 reviews and over 2000 newspaper articles. He was a professor and a youngest dean at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Sorbonne, Cambridge, Harvard, Berkeley, Fordham Graduate School and gave hundreds of lectures in major universities of the Western world. As Fullbright exchange professor , he taught American sociology in Holland and introduced their very advanced probation system to the United States. His work: "Sociological Theory": its Nature and Growth" was a university best-seller for many years. He was also the first person to publish a work about religious persecutions in Soviet Union.

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