Doctor of law, associate professor Nadraha Alexander Antonovych – the major milestones of life and work at the law faculty of Lviv university

Abstract

At various times in this department of history of state, law, political and legal doctrines worked many famous historians of law – professors, doctors of law, associate professors, honorary member of the European Academies of Sciences and others. Mostly of them now almost all forgotten. So this writer is willing to return from oblivion the identity of one of these lecturers of the department – Alexander Nadraga. He was born in 1885, graduated from high school in Lviv, and in 1909 – Law Faculty of Lviv University. Alexander Nadraha worked as a lawyer, defended his dissertation and passed the exams received a scientific degree of doctor of law. As professor from 1909 he began teaching Roman law in Ukrainian secret university in Lviv, and from 1939 – Civil and Roman law in the Greek Catholic Theological Academy. Alexander Nadraha was a member of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society of Lviv, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Union of Advocates in Poland, co-editor of magazine “Life and Law”. When in Lviv in October 1939 opened Ukrainian Soviet university and, among others, the department of the history of state and law, Alexander Nadraha was invited to teach Roman law, taking the post of acting Professor. He prepared a manual on this subject, and a manual on civil law (as co-autor). During the war, the university does not act, and Alexander Nadraha worked as a lawyer, staying in Lviv. When in 1944 Lviv was liberated from the Nazi occupiers, in September university resumed its activity, and Alexander Nadraha returned to work at the department. In April 1946 he was awarded the rank of associate professor by a decision of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR. Later, he continued to lead the course of Roman law in Lviv University. Alexander Nadraha was fluent in Polish and German, quite good – French and Latin. Its apartments visited Bishop Y. Slipyy, Archimandrite K. Sheptytskyy and many other people – professors, lawyers etc. Someone told the KGB about «nationalist turnout» in the apartment scholar. In October 1947, Alexander Nadraha was arrested «with the assistance of Ukrainian nationalist gangs» and was taken to Siberia with his family. In Galychyna they were allowed to return (but not in Lviv) in 1959. In April 1962 Associate Professor Alexander Nadraha died and was buried in Lviv.