THE ROLE OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES IN POPULARISING GERMAN LITERATURE IN THE DUCHY OF WARSAW AND THE KINGDOM OF POLAND (Rola bibliotek szkolnych w popularyzowaniu literatury niemieckiej w Ksiestwie Warszawskim i Królestwie Polskim)

• Authors: Adrianek Mieczyslawa
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Polish authors writing about the history of literature usually fail to notice the influence of German literature on the preparation of the Romantic breakthrough (1822) in Polish literature. An important role in the birth and development of this ideological and artistic movement was played by schools. Schools in the Duchy of Warsaw, formed (1807) from lands taken by Prussia during the 2nd and 3rd Partition of Poland, subsequently expanded to include some lands from the Austrian part of the partitioned Poland (1809) and then, following Napoleon's defeat, transformed into the Kingdom of Poland (1815), employed many teachers of German origin as well as Poles who had graduated from German universities. Hence the presence of German authors (such as Klopstock, Gleim, Gellert, Rabener, Herder, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller and Schlegel) in the curricula (1810, 1812 and 1820) and recommended reading lists (1812 and 1820). The popularity of books by German authors is also confirmed by surviving inventories and catalogues of school libraries (Lublin, Szczebrzeszyn, Plock, Kalisz, Poznan) and school reports (Warsaw). The present author disagrees with the current conclusions of literature scholars with regard to the sources of aesthetic inspirations of Polish Romanticism.

Keywords

EN

19TH C.); GERMAN LITERATURE; ROMANTICISM; SCHOOL LIBRARIES (POLAND

Discipline

• LIBRARY_&_INFORMATION_SCIENCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Roczniki Biblioteczne
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 54
• Pages: 137-150
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Adrianek Mieczyslawa

• Roczniki Biblioteczne Redakcja, pl. Uniwersytecki 9/13, 50-137 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09897