Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky (Russian: Семён Ефимович Десницкий; c. 1740 in Nezhin, Russian Empire – June 26, 1789 in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian legal scholar. He was known as a disciple of Adam Smith and introduced his ideas to the Russian public. He was also the first academic to deliver his lectures in Russian language rather than in Latin.
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1740 Nezhin, Russian Empire
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26 June 1798 (aged 58) Moscow, Russian Empire
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