Leon Geršković

Leon Geršković
Personal details
Born	(1910-02-02)2 February 1910 Bučje, Pleternica, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (now Croatia)
Died	1 April 1992(1992-04-01) (aged 82) Zagreb, Croatia
Nationality	Croat
Alma mater	University of Zagreb

Leon Geršković (02 February 1910 – 1 April 1992) was Croatian Jewish lawyer, legal scholar and politician.

Geršković was born in Bučje, Pleternica on February 2, 1910. He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and graduated in 1933. After graduation, Geršković worked as a lawyer, and in 1941 he joined the Partisans. In 1943, he became the first editor of Slobodna Dalmacija. From 1944, Geršković was the chief of administration at ZAVNOH. Repeatedly he was the elected member of the SFR Yugoslavia National Assembly, state secretary at the federal executive council and member of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. He was a university professor who taught constitutional law and the municipal system. Geršković was one of the founders of Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb in 1962, and it's first dean until 1965. Also, he was a professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. Geršković started the journal "Politička Misao". Since 1946 to 1974, Geršković participated in the writing of the constitution of Yugoslavia. He died on April 1, 1992 in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.

Works

• Dokumenti o razvoju narodne vlasti (1946)
• Historija narodne vlasti (1950)
• Nauka o administraciji (1951)
• Društveno upravljanje u Jugoslaviji (1957)
• Polazne osnove pravnog sistema u udruženom radu (1972)
• Ustavne teme (1976)
• Socijalistička zajednica rada (1976)

Bibliography

• Goldstein, Ivo (2005). Židovi u Zagrebu 1918 - 1941. Zagreb: Novi Liber. ISBN 953-6045-23-0. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Kovačec, August (2002). Hrvatska opća enciklopedija 4. Zagreb: Leksikografski Zavod Miroslav Krleža. ISBN 953-6036-34-7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)