ПРАВНЕ СТУДИЈЕ КРАЈЕМ XVIII И ПОЧЕТКОМ XIX ВЕКА И БЕОГРАДСКА ВЕЛИКА ШКОЛА 1808–1813. ГОДИНЕ
THE BELGRADE HIGHER SCHOOL (1808–1813) AND LEGAL STUDIES IN THE LATE XVIII AND AT THE BEGINNING OF XIX CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The Higher School (La Haute École) was founded in Belgrade, on 1st (the Old – Julian Calendar), i.e. 13th of September 1808 (Today’s – Gregorian Calendar). Despite the fact that the School has already been a subject of research, some of the questions remained unanswered. One of them relates to the character of the Higher School, that is to the issue of whether it is justified to consider the School to be a predecessor of the University of Belgrade, and especially of its Faculty of Law, or not. The method of approaching this issue may be to look into the high and higher education and the legal studies models in the region of that time. This paper offers a comparative perspective of the educational systems in Russian and Austrian empires, that both could have served as a model for the system of education in Serbia. The founding fathers of the Higher School and its first professors completed their legal studies in Austria, so the author pays special attention to the Austrian system of legal education of that time. The author determines the comparison criteria: curricula, length of schooling, number of teachers, academic titles and methods of lecturing, and finds many elements in common with the legal educational model at Austrian Royal Academies.

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