Olimpiad Solomonovich Ioffe

IOFFE, Olimpiad Solomonovich OIimpiad Solomonovich Ioffe, died on Friday (April 8, 2005) at the age of 85, at his home in Farmington. Prof. loffa was an outstanding Civil Law scholar. Born in 1920 in what is now Ukraine, he received his diploma, and later Candidate and full Doctorate degrees from the Leningrad State University. For over 20 years he was the Chairman of the Civil Law Department. He was one of the principals in drafting the Civil Code of the Russian Republic, and was an author of numerous publications including fundamental text book on the Soviet Civil Law. Many prominent figures in Russia were among his students, including former Major of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, and current president of Russia Vladimir Putin. Prof. Ioffe emigrated to the USA in 1981. After a brief Fellowship at Harvard Law School he received a tenured position as a professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, where he worked until his retirement in 1998, teaching, consulting, and publishing, including a number of books on legal and economic issues, books which helped to understand the processes of change taking place in the Soviet Union. One result of these socioeconomic changes in the former Soviet Union was renewed interest in his works in Russia and other former Republics of the Soviet Union. The four volume set of his works previously published in Russian is now being printed in St. Petersburg, Russia. He continued active work almost to the end. He is survived by his wife, Evgenia Ioffe of 58 years, and daughter Zinaida Henkin of Stamford. Funeral Services arranged by Hebrew Funeral Association, 906 Farmington Ave., West Hartford to be held on Monday, April 11, at 12 Noon in the Molloy Funeral Home. The family expresses their gratitude to the staff at the Middlewoods of Farmington for their outstanding care.