The Church Fathers in "Works, sketches and notes by Edmund Bojanowski. Unpublished" Cover Image

Ojcowie Kościoła w "Pracach, szkicach i notatkach Edmunda Bojanowskiego. Ineditach"
The Church Fathers in "Works, sketches and notes by Edmund Bojanowski. Unpublished"

Author(s): Piotr Pietryga
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es)
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: the Church Fathers; archival heritage; archive; Bojanowski Edmund; orphanages; egodocument; history of upbringing;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the content of Works, sketches and notes by Edmund Bojanowski. Unpublished in terms of the presence of the Church Fathers in them. Through a detailed analysis of the archival heritage of the Blessed, the article presents the Church Fathers occurring in the archives in alphabetical order, and also takes into account the circumstances and the number of their appearances. It can be stated that although E. Bojanowski was familiar with the lives and activities of the Church Fathers, he wasn’t reading their works on a daily basis and only knew them fragmentarily. In addition, as the publisher of periodicals for commoners, E. Bojanowski, an educated secular nobleman himself, tried to popularize knowledge about the Fathers (their lives, views and teachings) in Pokłosie or Rok Wiejski journals. The analysis of Bojanowski's notes also gives a fragmentary insight into his intellectual and spiritual development thanks to the study of the Fathers' biographies and teachings, and also - in some cases, into the use of their works to shape children and youth in rural orphanages, of which he was the founder. The analysis also gives a partial understanding of the reception of the Fathers in the mid-19th century on Polish territory in the Prussian Partition. Translated by Anna Pietryga

  • Issue Year: 2026
  • Issue No: 99
  • Page Range: 541-558
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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