Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky was a jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and president (1905) of the International Institute of Sociology. He also held a chair in sociology at the Psycho-Neurological Institute. Kovalevsky was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914. The Russian Sociological Society adopted his name in 1916.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, legal historian, sociologist, historian
- Position held
- Member of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, member of the State Council of the Russian Empire
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- September 8, 1851
