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Uniwersytet Lwowski − kresowa uczelnia w kresowym mieście

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Ciara S.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2008

vol. 50

issue (1)

165-173

Lviv, situated at the borderline of cultures, languages, and religions was, by its nature, considered a borderland city. It was an opinion of its Polish inhabitants who formed the majority of city’s population until 1939. The article presents an analysis of selected statements of distinguished representatives of Lviv University academic elite, mainly of the Second Polish Republic period (1918−1939), who ascribe it a special mission not only at the borderlands of Poland, but also at the borderlands of Western civilization, emphasizing the significant role of Lviv and Vilnius Universities in the realm of the Latin culture. Let us take an exert from a speech of Jan Kasprowicz − a poet, the then Vice-Chancellor of Lviv University. During his inaugural address at the opening of 1921/1922 academic year he stated that the University constitutes one of the major bases of Polish presence in the Borderlands, but also one of the bases of the depleted Polish Republic. An obvious consequence of taking this standpoint was, inter alia, a strong resistance of Lviv professors against transforming the University into a bilingual school − Polish-Ukrainian − and, all the more, against establishing a Ukrainian university in Lviv, the city which is the bone of contention of the Poles and Ukrainians.

Kontakty archiwistów galicyjskich z Archiwum Głównym Akt Dawnych w Warszawie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku w świetle korespondencji Teodora Wierzbowskiego

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Ciara S.

Miscellanea Historico-Archivistica

2011

vol. 18

issue 18

187-197

More than half of historians who used the holdings of the Central Archives of Historical Records, headed in the years 1897–1919 by Professor Teodor Wierzbowski, came from Galicia. Among them archivists constituted not a small group, only to mention Oswald Balzer, Eugeniusz Barwiński, Adam Chmiel, Przemysław Dąbkowski, Stanisław Krzyżanowski, Stanisław Kutrzeba. Their correspondence, which is stored in the manuscript collections of the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow city, shows how much they valued the relations with the Central Archives and its director. Books on history and the fundamental source editions, as well as historical and legal arguments in the Polish–Hungarian border dispute about the region of Morskie Oko in the Tatra Mountains were the results of research conducted in Warsaw. Wierzbowski asked scholars, who used the holdings of The Central Archives of Historical Records, not to disclose the origin of quoted records, in order not to attract attention of Russian authorities to the fact how important and valuable to the Polish historical science was holdings of that archive. Contacts of Galician scholars, including archivists from the cities of Cracow and Lvov, maintained with the Central Archives show a sense of unity of the Polish science across the borders, in spite of partitions. These contacts contributed to the integration of Polish historians, and in independent Poland were basis for creation one common archival service.

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Uniwersytet Lwowski − kresowa uczelnia w kresowym mieście

Kontakty archiwistów galicyjskich z Archiwum Głównym Akt Dawnych w Warszawie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku w świetle korespondencji Teodora Wierzbowskiego