Mikhail Andreevich Reisner was a Russian and Soviet lawyer, jurist, writer, social psychologist and historian of Baltic German extraction.
11 Facts About Mikhail Reisner
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Mikhail Reisner was the father of writer Larissa Reisner and orientalist Igor Reisner and adoptive father of naval officer and submariner Lev Reisner.
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Mikhail Reisner's father was a state official in the Vilna Governorate.
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Mikhail Reisner graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw in 1893.
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Mikhail Reisner advocated for replacing the Polizeistaat model, which he considered outdated, with a "cultural rule-of-law state" that would guarantee the rights of the Empire's citizens, including freedom of conscience and religion.
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In 1907, Mikhail Reisner returned to the Russian Empire and became a lecturer at Saint Petersburg State University.
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Mikhail Reisner was the main author of the Decree on the Separation of Church and State.
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Mikhail Reisner was one of the founders of the Communist Academy as a centre of Marxist social science.
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Mikhail Reisner was one of the founders of the Russian Psychoanalytical Society and worked in the People's Commissariat for Education and the People's Commissariat of Justice.
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Until his death, Mikhail Reisner taught as a professor in the Moscow State University.
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Mikhail Reisner died in 1928 and his ashes were buried at the Donskoye cemetery.