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This article is written in memoriam of Ihor Skochylas, a historian and outstanding researcher. In 1993 he graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He worked at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and then at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He was visiting professor at the Ukrainische Freie Universität in Munich. He is the author of 250 scientific publications on the history of the Ternopil region and, above all, the history of the Church in Ukraine in the broader perspective of the history of the First Republic and in connection with the universal Church. Innovative research by Ihor Skoczylas is related to the search for a “mental map”. The book by Ihor Skoczylas, co-authored with A. Gil, entitled “Eastern Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian state” (Lublin-Lviv 2014).
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Świętosław Orzelski (1549–1598), Starost of Radziejów, actively participated in the political life of the noblemen’s Republic of Poland as a parliamentary activist and Member of Parliament. As a deputy he participated in 13 sessions of Parliament, including 6 sessions during the rule of Stefan Batory and 7 ones in the reign of Sigismund III Vasa. He was a talented politician, continuing the best traditions of the execution faction. As one of the seniors of the Augsburg denomination, he belonged to the group of leaders in the fight for religious tolerance. His historical work under the title Acta interregni post obitum nimirum Sigismundi Augusti remained in the form of manuscript for many years. It was not published in the Polish translation until the 19th century by Włodzimierz Spasowicz, and in its original form by Edward Kuntze in 1917. At present, a new edition of the work by Świętosław Orzelski is being prepared. In the first place, an introductory volume will be published, containing Orzelski’s biography, his speeches and letters dedicated to public matters.
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In this article I ask the question about the place and role of the historian – a researcher of historical culture – in the world of past performance (the social pageant being one of the forms of this culture). This is an important question for several reasons: performances are an alternative to the letter and the text (though no less frequent in our culture) that they are different form of reactualised past in the present; performances restore the proper status of perception (there is no performance without an audience), the value of words, gestures, social ideas and the experiences emancipating them, from the domination of logocentric narration; as Bogumil Jewsiewicki writes, and again due to the form, performances privilege experiences and emotions (emotional memory); performances are social or broadly cultural facts involved in the past and therefore they are not selfless to the past; performances are the part of the historian’s work that he practically creates, where he vividly participates (in state ceremonies, theatrical spectacles, marches, parades, etc.) and tests them. Looking for a modus vivendi between the duty of a professional historian and member of the past performance community (the community of memory) there is a historian in a complex social role, on the one hand, of a distanced researcher and on the other as a vicarious witness. There is no better term for this ambiguous role of the historian so I call him a “critical witness”. A historian is a witness (also for cognitive purposes), because he exceeds the border of “foreign” performance and its community, and becomes a part of it (if not, the performance looks ineffective). A historian is critical, because he maintains a critical attitude to the place and role which he/she plays in the past performance, taking notice of its engaging power and trying to investigate what this power is. One of the possible and more operant strategies which the historian as a critical witness can (or could) use is to give a “voice” to his/her narration for three narrators of performance: the spirit of the past represented by contemporary actors/social actors, the actors/social actors being the witnesses or vicarious witnesses in a frame of performance; and for himself as the person who uses at the same time her/his own knowledge, experience and emotion, which give her/him a chance to play the role of a researcher, as well as a human being.
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The article presents dr Adam Stefan Zamoyski, a known historian, biographer, author of many books and articles about Polish and European history. Two major bestsellers are the history of Poland: je Polish Way and 1812. Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow and its sequel Rites of Peace. His books have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Persian as well as into most of the European languages. His comprehensive history of Poland, je Polish Way, not only featured in the best-seller lists for several weeks when it came out in 1987, but has never been out of print since. Zamoyski has also contributed to all the major British papers and periodicals, as well as lecturing widely in England, Europe and the United States. Alongside his professional activities, Adam Zamoyski has always been profoundly concerned with cultural heritage, its preservation and popularisation. He has worked on a number of projects, including the restoration and revaluation of the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków. Adam Zamoyski is a member of many charities, e.g. Polish Association of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of Malta. In 1991 he established the Foundation of St John of Jerusalem in Warsaw, the rst charitable organ of the Order of Malta in Poland. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2012 Adam Stefan Zamoyski received the honorary doctorate of the Polish University Abroad in London.
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Janusz Durko, Prof. Dr with habilitation, was a historian, an archivist, and a distinguished museologist. Born in Warsaw, he graduated from Warsaw University, history faculty (1938); then spent a whole WWII here. After the liberation from German occupation, he worked in the Capital City Reconstruction Office (Biuro Odbudowy Stolicy), then in the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej) founded to conduct research on contemporary history. His doctorate degree he obtained in 1948, habilitation in 1955, professorship in 1964. In 1951, he was appointed to the post of a director of the Main Historical Museum, which two years later was changed into the Historical Museum of Warsaw. The permanent exhibition he opened in 1955 was the first, exhaustive and complete, attempt to give the synthetic presentation of Warsaw past; the museum itself – as an institution of the greatest importance in the field of historical museums in Poland at the time – was inspiring a development of historical exhibitions also in museums of other countries. This helped Janusz Durko to establish his highly regarded professional position: he had been invited to be a member of many committees, councils (including museum ones) and associations, as well as editorial boards of magazines, inter alia, “Museology”. In the years 1951–2003, when Janusz Durko was the head of the Historical Museum of Warsaw, it was one of the main institutions for research on Warsaw history, the venue of numerous conferences, sessions and temporary exhibitions. It was maintaining good relations with many other countries, creating intensely its own collection, and offering an attractive educational programme. The number of its branches was steadily growing. Among Professor’s publications (ca. 140) of various kind there is one of an undoubtedly monumental character: eight volumes of the Bibliografia Warszawy (1958–2006) edited by him, where he registered everything, or nearly everything, that was being published on Warsaw in the years 1795–1970. In recognition of Professor’s achievements he had been awarded a number of times with, inter alia: the Minister of Culture and Arts Award of 1st degree for protection of cultural heritage, the Award of Capital City of Warsaw (twice), title of “Homo Varsoviensis”, the Order of Polonia Restituta First Class – the Grand Cross with Star, the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis”. After getting retired in 2003, Professor Durko still maintained close relation with museum by being a member of the Museum Council (2004–2008). In 2015, the institution he had been running for 52 years had an honour of hosting him for the last time during the celebration of his 100th birthday. He died a year after and was buried in the Powązki Military Cemetery.
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The publication presents the memoirs of professor, Father Yuri Mytsyk about Soviet Ukrainian germanist Anatolii Zavialov. Yuri Mytsyk worked with Anatolii Zavialov at the same department from 1974 till 1989, and from 1975 carried out the duties of his deputy. Zavialov’s academic life and his teaching career in 1960s-2000s was connected to Dnipropetrovsk university. At that time Zavialov actively studied the contemporary history of the German Democratic Republic, he was the author of many articles, including texts in prominent scientific journals, tutorials and published two monographs. He was one of the few Soviet germanists, who had business trips not only to the German Democratic Republic, but also behind the “Iron Curtain”. Zavialov also had the experience of teaching in the universities abroad. As the head of the department of world history, Zavialov made efforts to form a research direction in historical German studies at the university. The majority of dissertations, defended under his scientific supervision, were devoted to German history of the XXth century. Some of his graduate students-germanists continued their career at the department, and it became possible to create a strong center of German studies and turn the department of world history into a center of historical germanistics. To provide the opportunities to publish research in German history, in 1973 the scientific edition “The Questions of German History” was founded at the department of world history of Dnipropetrovsk national university, later it received the status of inter-university scientific edition. Articles here were published by historians-germanists from Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the study of the history of the German Democratic Republic went bankrupt and Zavialov turned to the history of German diaspora in Ukraine. He focused on political history of the German colonies at the beginning of the XXth century and the questions of the history of colonization in civilizational dimension. The last years of the historian`s life were over shadowed by a sharp deterioration of health and decline in scientific activity.
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У публікації представлено спогади професора о. Юрія Мицика про українського радянського германіста Анатолія Зав’ялова. Свого часу Юрій Мицик працював на одній кафедрі разом із Анатолієм Зав’яловим у період 1974–1989 рр., а з 1975 р. виконував обов’язки його заступника. Академічне життя й викладацька кар’єра історика (1960–2000-ні рр.) були пов’язані з Дніпропетровським університетом. У цей час Зав’ялов активно вивчав сучасну йому історію Німецької Демократичної Республіки, став автором багатьох статей (зокрема і в провідних академічних журналах), навчальних посібників і видав дві монографії. Він був одним із небагатьох радянських германістів, який мав відрядження не лише до Німецької Демократичної Республіки, але й за «залізну завісу». Окрім того, історик здобув досвід викладання в зарубіжних університетах. На посаді завідувача кафедри всесвітньої історії докладав зусиль, щоб сформувати в університеті дослідницький напрям з історичної германістики. Під його керівництвом захищали дисертації переважно з німецької історії ХХ ст. Частина колишніх аспірантів-германістів залишилася працювати на кафедрі, що дозволило створити потужний осередок германських студій і перетворити кафедру всесвітньої історії на центр історичної германістики. Для забезпечення можливості публікувати дослідження з німецької історії у 1973 р. на кафедрі всесвітньої історії Дніпропетровського університету було засновано збірник «Вопросы германской истории», який згодом отримав статус між вишівського. У збірнику результати досліджень публікували історики-германісти з Радянського Союзу та Німецької Демократичної Республіки. Після падіння Берлінського муру та об’єднання Німеччини вивчення історії Німецької Демократичної Республіки фактично припинилося, і Зав’ялов спрямував свою дослідницьку увагу на історію німецької діаспори України. Він став вивчати політичну історію німецьких колоній початку ХХ ст. та питання історії колонізації у цивілізаційному вимірі. Останні роки життя історика були затьмарені різким погіршенням здоров’я, зниженням наукової активності.
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The purpose of this article is the analysis, classification and synthesis of the historical literature on peasant insurgent movement on Chyhyryn area in the late 10th – early 20th of the XX century; figuring out the correct use of the term “Holodny Yar Republic” as the name of the peasant insurgent organization on Chyhyrynshchyna. For the study of Ukrainian historiography was used comparative method. The author uses both general scientific methods (systemic) and speculation: historical-chronological, comparative-historical, typological, problem-chronological approach. The Ukrainian historiography of peasant insurgency in Chyhyrynshchyna can be divided according to this principle: works of direct participants and contemporaries of peasant liberation struggle, published mainly in Ukrainian diaspora and scientific research, carried out by Ukrainian historians in the years of Ukrainian independence. The problem of investigation of the peasant insurgency of the Kholodny Yar became widely popular after the publication of the memories of Y. Horlis-Horsky in the 1930s. Memories of the author were supplemented by the writings of M. Doroshenko, I. Liuty-Liutenko. Information about insurgent struggle in Chyhyrynshchyna contained in the memoirs of Ukrainian military leaders: N. Omelianovych-Pavlenko, Y. Tiutiunnyk, O. Vyshnivsky, O. Dotsenko, P. Diachenko, N. Avramenko, V. Simiantsev. In the years of Ukrainian independence the interest to peasant insurgency in Kholodny Yar has grown significantly. Access to archival materials, dedicated to the liberation struggle of Ukrainian people, has strengthened spring base of the research. Among modern researchers who have considered in their writings the issues of insurgency in Kholodny Yar, an important place is occupied by R. Koval. The topic of the insurgent movement in Kholodny Yar reflected in publications of M. Bukhalska, V. Dmytruk, V. Marayev, V. Savchenko, P. Stehniy and other researchers. The term “Holodnoyarska Republic” is not correct in scientific terms. The members of insurgents movement in Kholodny Yar had never proclaimed own “Republic”. They fought not for a small area around Kholodny Yar, but for the liberation of Ukraine, part of which they themselves believed. The topic of peasant insurgency in Kholodny Yar area has not yet been disclosed finally, researchers have work to do. The article may be useful for historians, educators and anyone interested in the history of the liberation struggle in Ukraine.
Zapiski Historyczne
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2022
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vol. 87
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issue 1
107-132
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The aim of this article is to present the scholarly activities of Professor Edward Włodarczyk (1946–2021), a renowned expert in Pomeranian history and culture, historian of the economic history and maritime policy of Prussia, on the example of 159 selected academic publications. They have been subjected to analysis by the use of selected methods of descriptive statistics and social network analysis (SNA). The attributes of bibliographic items have been examined and the links between them visualized with the use of Gephi software. The results of the research have been used to briefly present the scholarly profile of E. Włodarczyk; they also serve the organisational purpose. A catalogue of key words (phrases) has been compiled, and the characteristic features of publications, complete with their numerical development over time, publication strategies, and main and side research directions have been established. The research shows that the scholarly and publishing activity of E. Włodarczyk was subject to certain changes over time. The most intense scholarly activity occurred in the 1990s, which was accompanied by a change in the manner of publishing. The professor’s scholarly activities centred on Szczecin, Western Pomerania and the Baltic provinces of Prussia. For this reason, E. Włodarczyk preferred particular journals, and also cared about communicating research findings in German and English (17.6%). The majority of his papers concerned the economic development of sectors and branches of the economy and were related to the second half of the 19th century (until 1918), yet over time they lost in quantitative terms and importance in favour of the papers that dealt with maritime policy, regionalism, urban history, and other issues.
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'Spain: Adolf Pawiński’s letters from his travels in Spain' was written in 1880. We are not dealing with a perieghesis in the nature of a scientific report or a sightseeing guide, but with a collection of texts written with the Polish reader in mind. The correspondence was to be published in the Warsaw press. This explains the volume’s character, content, and form. Pawiński wanted to give a complete picture of Spain, which he visited primarily as a historian, archivist, and tourist. Knowledge of the Spanish language allowed him to get closer to the Spanish world and understand it better. The description of the country is picturesque and, at the same time, historical. In Pawiński’s view, Spain is an “agglomerate”. The image of Spain is multi-faceted, based on knowledge and expressing his fascination with writing.
Vox Patrum
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2019
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vol. 71
501-530
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The content of this article was devoted to the researcher of Christian antiquity, Karl Holl (1866-1926), who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born into a Protestant family, he was deeply involved in the deepening and development of Protestantism in Germany with both socio-religious and literary activity. In addition to this range of activities in his life, he also turned out to be an outstanding historian, also publishing scientific contributions relating to Christian antiquity. Of these, critical editions including Epiphanius writings deserve special mention. He boldly presented his point of view regarding the authorship of works depicting Epiphanius as iconoclast, and being attributed to other authors for centuries. Despite the extensive discussion lasting several decades in the 20th century, the research line outlined by K. Holl remained unchanged. The research proficiency and reliability in conducting philological and historical analyzes of this scholar therefore deserve recollection.   Key words: Karl Holl, historian, Early Christian literaturę, critical editions, Protestantism.
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Treść niniejszego artykuł została poświęcona badaczowi starożytności chrześcijańskiej, jakim był żyjący na przełomie XIX i XX w. Karl Holl (1866-1926). Urodzony w rodzinie protestanckiej znacznie angażował się w pogłębienie i rozwój protestantyzmu w Niemczech zarówno aktywnością społeczno-religijną, jak i twórczością pisarską. Obok tego pasma działalności w jego życiu okazał się on ponadto wybitnym historykiem, także publikując przyczynki naukowe odnoszące się starożytności chrześcijańskiej. Spośród nich na szczególną wzmiankę zasługują wydania krytyczne obejmujące pisma Epifaniusza. Śmiało zaprezentował bowiem swój punkt widzenia w kwestii autorstwa utworów ukazujących Epifaniusza jako ikonoklastę, a będących przez wieki przypisywane innym autorom. Mimo szerokiej dyskusji trwającej kilka dziesięcioleci w XX w. linia badawcza nakreślona przez K. Holla pozostała niezmieniona. Kunszt badawczy i solidność w prowadzeniu analiz filologicznych i historycznych tego uczonego zasługują zatem na przypomnienie.   Słowa kluczowe: Karl Holl, historyk, literatura wczesnochrześcijańska, wydania krytyczne, protestantyzm  
Studia Mazowieckie
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2022
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vol. 17
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issue 2
13-31
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The fi gure of Professor Janusz Szczepański plays an important role in the academic community of historians of the 20th century and researchers of the history of Mazovia. His insightful research made it possible to analyze the causes, course, and effectsof the war of 1920 and contributed to the dissemination of knowledge about it. The Professor’s publications are extremely important to learning about the history of Mazovia, reconstructing the past of Mazovian cities and their communities. ProfessorSzczepański is a respected lecturer, a master for a large group of historians. He impresses with his knowledge, diligence, as well as modesty and kindness. This is worth mentioning not only on the occasion of his jubilee.
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Postać Profesora Janusza Szczepańskiego odgrywa ważną rolę w środowisku naukowym historyków XX w. oraz badaczy historii Mazowsza. Jego wnikliwe kwerendy umożliwiły przeprowadzenie analizy przyczyn, przebiegu i skutków wojny 1920 r. i przyczyniły się do upowszechnienia wiedzy na jej temat. Publikacje Profesora są niezwykle ważne dla poznania historii Mazowsza, odtworzenia przeszłości mazowieckich miast i ich społeczności. Profesor Szczepański jest cenionym wykładowcą, mistrzem dla licznego grona historyków. Imponuje wiedzą, pracowitością, a także skromnością i życzliwością. Warto o tym wspominać nie tylko z okazji jubileuszu.
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The article presents the most important achievements of Professor Józef Dobosz of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in the field of science organization, didactics and popularisation of history. Professor Dobosz is a historian specializing in the issues of the history of the Polish Middle Ages. He has also served as editor-in-chief of the quarterly „Historia Slavorum Occidentis”. In 2024, he turned 65.
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The author presents the academic achievements of Professor Józef Dobosz, a medieval historian from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, formerly a student of Professor Brygida Kürbis. He also presents the successive stages of his academic career, the main directions of his research, his most important publications and organisational activity. Professor Dobosz’s contribution to the development of relations between Polish and Czech historical milieus is also highlighted.
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