Promoting Habsburg Cultural Identity to Secondary School Pupils in Late Austrian-Ruled Bukovina: A Case Study of the First Imperial and Royal Gymnasium in Czernowitz

• Authors: Antony Hoyte-West

Title variants

PL

Promowanie habsburskiej tożsamości kulturowej wśród uczniów szkół średnich w późnoaustriackiej Bukowinie. Studium przypadku Pierwszego Cesarsko-Królewskiego Gimnazjum w Czerniowcach

Abstracts

PL

W artykule zbadano, w jaki sposób w latach 1900–1913 w głównym gimnazjum (kaiserlich-königliches I. Staatsgymnasium) w Czerniowcach, stolicy wielojęzycznego i wieloetnicznego regionu Bukowiny, promowano pojęcie habsburskiej tożsamości kulturowej. Po przedstawieniu odpowiedniego kontekstu historycznego i językowego przeanalizowano roczniki szkolne z epoki w celu uzyskania informacji na temat obchodów świąt i wydarzeń historycznych, przedstawień muzycznych i literackich, a także upamiętnienia ważnych luminarzy kultury. Dzięki tej analizie uzyskano wgląd w środki wykorzystywane do promowania szerszej tożsamości habsburskiej, dostarczając użytecznych danych jakościowych, które stanowią istotny wkład w szerszą dyskusję na temat polityki edukacyjnej w późnohabsburskiej Bukowinie.

EN

This contribution explores how notions of Habsburg cultural identity were promoted at the main grammar school (kaiserlich-königliches I. Staatsgymnasium) in Czernowitz, capital of the multilingual and multiethnic crownland of Bukovina, between 1900 and 1913. After presenting the relevant historical and linguistic context, the school’s yearbooks from that era are examined to obtain information regarding the celebration of relevant holidays and events, musical and literary performances, as well as the commemoration of important cultural luminaries. Through this analysis, insights into the contemporary means utilised to promote a wider Habsburg identity will be gained, providing useful qualitative data and thus adding to the broader discussion on educational policies in late Habsburg Bukovina.

Keywords

PL

Cesarsko-Królewskie Gimnazjum w Czerniowcach; Czerniowce; tożsamość kulturowa; Imperium Habsburgów; Bukowina; historia edukacji

EN

k. u. k. I. Staatsgymnasium; Czernowitz; cultural identity; Habsburg Empire; Bukovina; history of education

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Colloquia Humanistica
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 1-18

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Antony Hoyte-West

• https://orcid.org/0000000344106520

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DOI

10.11649/ch.2973

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