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PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year VII \u2022 No. 1 \u2022 pp. 68-116<\/p>\n

TOWARDS A BIOGRAPHY OF TOMA \u017dIVANOVI\u0106<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Language: Serbian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ivan Jankovi\u0107
\n<\/strong>Advokat u penziji
\ne-mail: ijank@eunet.rs<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Pravni zapisi, No. 1\/2016, pp. 68-116<\/p>\n

Original Scientific Article<\/p>\n

DOI<\/strong>: 10.5937\/pravzap0-11185<\/a><\/p>\n

KEY WORDS<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Toma \u017divanovi\u0107, criminal law, criminology, synthetic philosophy of law, tripartition, international congresses, International Association of Penal Law (AIDP), Nobel Prize<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT\/SUMMARY<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Toma \u017divanovi\u0107 (Thomas Givanovitch, 1884\u20131971) taught criminal law at Belgrade University (1909\u20131945). He obtained his LL.D. from the Sorbonne (1908) and did postdoctoral work in the Berlin Criminalistics Institute under Franz von Liszt (1908\/9). In 1916\u20131918 he taught two courses at the Sorbonne, in which he developed two theoretical insights which were well received in the academia of the time. The first concerned a tripartite division of the fundamental notions in criminal law and the second a \u201esynthetic\u201d philosophy of law.<\/p>\n

The paper contributes new data on \u017divanovi\u0107\u2019s personality, life and work. Although recognized in Serbia as a leading international scholar and a victim of Communism, \u017divanovi\u0107 is also the subject of an oral tradition, initially developed by his colleagues and students, which remembers him as a selfish, stingy and rancorous individual, willing to do for money things that people with a more developed moral sense would not, and unwilling to help his students. The paper critically assesses this tradition and finds it to be true in some, but invented in other parts. Born to a family of an uneducated provincial artisan and burdened by a speech im- pediment, \u017divanovi\u0107 suffered from an inferiority complex, which thwarted his social integration. Eventually he entered the high society of the then Yugoslavia, partly because his marriage to an influential socialite. He was a noted member of the leading international associations in criminal law and philosophy and, together with Vespasiano Pella, Raphael Lemkin and several others, belonged to a \u201eselect group\u201d of European lawyers who dealt with issues of international criminal law and terrorism.<\/p>\n

After the Communist takeover in 1945, much of \u017divanovi\u0107\u2019s family property was nationalized and he was forced to retire from the University. He did remain a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, through which he continued his research and writing, often travelling abroad to work in libraries and participate in international congresses. He published his three-volume Synthetic Philosophy\u00a0 of\u00a0 Law\u00a0 in\u00a0 Yugoslavia, but foreign publishers had lost interest in his work. In the last two decades of his life, \u017divanovi\u0107 became obsessed by what he perceived as the seminal importance of his earlier contributions. He regarded tripartition as a universally applicable \u201ediscovery\u201d (rather than an insight or a theoretical construct), to be used in all legal and many \u201eextra-legal\u201d sciences (such as zoology and pedagogy). He believed that nearly all modern criminal codes were based on his tripartite theory and suspected a conspiracy of legal scholars to minimize or deny his authorship. \u017divanovi\u0107\u2019s obsession gradually made him lose contact with reality. Twice, in 1960 and 1961, he nominated himself for the Nobel Prize in literature (it not being awarded for legal scholarship). Although \u017divanovi\u0107 was indeed an internationally recognized and prominent legal scholar before the Second World War, assessment of his significance prevailing in the Serbian literature is overstated, closer to his own delusional self-image than to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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