ДОКТОР ПРАВА СЛИЖ АДОЛЬФ СЕМЕНОВИЧ – МАЛОВІДОМИЙ ВИПУСКНИК ЮРИДИЧНОГО ФАКУЛЬТЕТУ ЛЬВІВСЬКОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ

The article analyzes the figure of a recondite scholar, a graduate of the Law Faculty of Lviv University, who received a law degree and devoted his life to the activities that inspired him. One of the key problems that arises when studying the biography of Adolf Slyzh is the combination of the influence of historical events of this period on the formation of the personality of a lawyer-jurist. The article describes in detail the main periods of his life and highlights the main events in the work of Lviv University. A historical overview of the events of 1918 – the beginning of the 21st century is made, and the author's personal scientific achievements of the period of 1918 – 1923 are used. The article reflects the relevance and significance of the impact of historical events on the formation of a scientific figure, a qualified lawyer-judge Adolf Slyzh. The scientific novelty lies in the introduction of his previously unknown biography into scientific circulation. This material allows to achieve the main goal, namely, to reconstruct little-known, and perhaps not entirely known, pages of the scholar's life. It is about a study of biographical data from Slyzh's book of memoirs “My Years. Memoirs”. The tragic historical events that prevented the scholar from continuing his studies at Lviv University, namely the First World War, became fateful in his life, as the university stopped teaching when the war broke out. The events described in the book of memoirs reveal that the key events of the scholar's life were quite transformative. First of all, it goes about the historical process of the Lviv University, which resumed its work only in 1919, allowing A. Slyzh to pass his final exams and receive a diploma. During the Second World War, A. Slyzh worked as a judge, but the war made significant adjustments to his future life path. When Soviet troops approached Galicia in 1944, he and his family emigrated to the West (to Slovakia, then to Germany), and in the summer of 1950 to the United States of America, where he died and was buried in New York in 1971. Keywords: history of the Law Faculty, famous graduates, lawyers, Adolf Slyzh, Lviv University.