GEORG FORSTER IN VILNIUS (Georg Forster w Wilnie)

• Authors: Sauerland Karol
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author deals with the journey of Georg Forster from Kassel through Vienna to Vilnius in 1784 and Forster's impression from his stay in Poland, as well as with his activity as professor of natural history in Vilnius in 1784-1787. What is important is the question what intellectual milieu Forster might have found in Vilnius. His most important intellectual partner was probably Marcin Poczobut, a very well known astronomer and the rector of the university being built at that time. The author objects to the view that Forster was in isolation on his own fault, and that this isolation was the reason why he knew almost nothing about Poland and saw the country as depressing.

Keywords

EN

FORSTER GEORG; UNIVERSITY OF VILNIUS (18TH C.)

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2(27)
• Pages: 165-178
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sauerland Karol

• Karol Sauerland, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28. 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA085517