Leon Piniński, the prominent Austro-Hungarian politician and professor of Roman Law at the University of Lwów, became famous in the world of scholarship when he published a two-volume study entitled Der Thatbestand des Sachbesitzerwerbes... more
Leon Piniński, the prominent Austro-Hungarian politician and professor of Roman Law at the University of Lwów, became famous in the world of scholarship when he published a two-volume study entitled Der Thatbestand des Sachbesitzerwerbes nach gemeinem Recht (The State of Affairs of Acquisition of Property according to Common Law). His interests, however, went well beyond Roman Law. He wrote of everything that interested him. He left splendid studies of art, music, and literature. In 1924, he published a two-volume study entitled Shakespeare. Szkice i wrażenie z twórczości poety (Shakespeare: Sketches and Impressions of the Poet’s Work). This text was much appreciated by historians of literature and still today is the best study of Shakespeare in Polish.
