Semyon Desnitsky
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Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky (Russian: Семён Ефимович Десницкий; c. 1740 in Nezhin, Russian Empire – June 26, 1789 in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian legal scholar. He was known as a disciple of Adam Smith and introduced his ideas to the Russian public.[1][2] He was also the first academic to deliver his lectures in Russian language rather than in Latin.
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Born | 1740 |
Died | (1798-06-26)June 26, 1798 |
Education | Doctor of Science (1767) |
Alma mater | Imperial Moscow University (1760) |
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Institutions | Imperial Moscow University |
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