Kunitsyn А.P. (1783-1840), lawyer, teacher

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KUNITSYN Alexander Petrovich (1783-1840, St. Petersburg), lawyer, teacher, writer. Studied at the Tver Theological Seminary. In 1804-07, he continued studying, this time at the St. Petersburg Main Pedagogical Institute, and upon graduation was sent abroad to study at the University of Gottingen and the University of Heidelberg. In 1811, he joined the teaching staff of the Tsarskoselsky Lyceum, becoming a professor in 1816. From 1817 to 1821, he also taught at the St. Petersburg Main Pedagogical Institute, and at the boarding school connected to it; from 1819, he also took up a teaching position at the University of St. Petersburg. Kunitsyn was dismissed during the so-called university rout on account of his book Natural Law (part 1-2, 1818-20), which was taken out of circulation for contradicting "the truth of Christianity". He then assumed an office at the Ministry of Finance, later taking a position at the Second Division of His Imperial Majesty's Chancellery in 1826, where he participated in the formation of the Code of Laws. He was buried at the Bolsheokhtinskoe Cemetery.

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O. N. Ansberg. Kunitsyn Alexander Petrovich
Грот Я. К. Пушкин, его лицейские товарищи и наставники. 2-е изд., доп. СПб., 1899
Кобеко Д. Ф. Императорский Царскосельский лицей: Наставники и питомцы, 1811–1843. СПб., 1911
Яценко О. А. А. П. Куницын: Невостребованное наследие // Вече: Альм. рус. философии и культуры. СПб., 1995 Main Pedagogical Institute
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