Nicola Dolapchieff ( bg, Никола Долапчиев) was a
Bulgarian-American lawyer and
professor
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of
criminal law.
Biography
Dolapchieff was born on February 7, 1897, in the Sliven city (Bulgaria). He was the dean of the Law School and Professor of
Criminal Law at the
University of Sofia
Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...
, Bulgaria, and editor of the journal, ''Jridicheska Measul'', (Juridical Thought), published by the Ministry of Justice.
In 1957, Dolapchieff went aboard the ''Queen Mary'' from
Liverpool
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to
New York City
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with his wife Rada and his son George. He settled with his family in
Los Angeles
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,
California
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. Deprived of Bulgarian citizenship, he applied for and received US citizenship. He died on November 8, 1964, and was buried in the cemetery Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles.
[Nicola Dolapchieff - Nikolai Poppetrov magazine. Science 3/2014 year XXIV (2014)]
Bibliography
* ''The civil action before the criminal court'', (Sophia, 1921)
* ''Die logishe Aufbau des Schuldbegriffs irri Strafrechtssystem'' (Berlin, 1924)
* ''Illegality and Culpability'' (Sofia, 1925) (44 Penal Law in Soviet Russia (1926)
* ''The Crime, Act and Causation'' (1927)
* ''Handbook of Bulgarian Criminal Law'' (1931)
References
External links
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1897 births
1964 deaths
20th-century Bulgarian lawyers
Bulgarian emigrants to the United States
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