Boards of Stabilization of the Warsaw University and the Warsaw Institute of Technology in the Year 1919 – Senate of Academic Republic, or Ministerial Bureau of Polish Republic?

• Authors: D. Zamojska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Taking control over education by a newly originating Polish administration on the territories occupied by German and Austrian forces placed the officials of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment in a difficult position resulting from the problem of stabilizing the staff lecturing in the two founded during war capital academies: the Warsaw University and the Warsaw Institute of Technology. One had to find such form of solving the problem, which would have let reconcile administration's anxiety to control and achieve supremacy over academies cultivating the tradition of academic liberties. A newly established special board, which gathered representatives of academic circle and the invited by the minister persons actively engaged in educational work, having the social respect, seemed to be a solution giving a strong probability of satisfaction of both of sides. A key matter was a choice of the likely candidates for the members of the board. The Ministry chose the mature scholars that were descended from classes of society of a stabile, but not of a very high position (gentry, intelligentsia, officials). The board, in spite of its conservative origin, on the occasion of choosing the candidates for the Warsaw departments, in most of the cases pronounced for the younger colleagues both as far as age and scientific practice are concerned.

Keywords

EN

The Warsaw University; the Warsaw Institute of Technology; academic staff; the 1919 year

• Publisher: Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 22-36

Contributors

author

D. Zamojska

• Instytut Historii Nauki PAN, ul. Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland