Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981) i akademicka kariera Edmunda Bulandy (1882–1951). Rozterki i wizje polskiej archeologii klasycznej początków XX w.
Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981) and the Academic Career of Edmund Bulanda (1882–1951). Dilemmas and Visions of Polish Classical Archaeology of the Early 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: A series of memoirs was written concerning the persona of professor Edmund Bulanda, as well as various publications about the milieu of Polish historians and archaeologists in Lviv. In recent years it also aroused considerable interest of Ukrainian researchers of the history of the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. Majority of them, in the evaluation of academic achievements of professor Bulanda, former university’s President, share the opinion of his student, professor Kazimierz Michałowski. Michałowski quite enigmatically explained the extraordinary involvement of the Lviv archaeologist in the organizational matters of the university. According to him, this was due to Bulanda’s lack of faith in the sense of the development of Polish classical archeology. However, nobody tries to explain whether Bulanda was indeed troubled by doubts, and if so, what was the reason for such an attitude. It seems that from the beginning of his Lviv career, the professor had a clear and modern vision of the development of Polish classical archeology. In 1919, a project was created to establish the State Archaeological Institute. Although it never happened, Bulanda took the strategic assumptions of this idea to heart. It was an institutional internationalization of research through the creation of a Polish scientific center in Rome and Athens and the training of a young generation of archaeologists outside Poland. He did not doubt the sense of the necessary changes, although in practice he had a possibility to implement only a small part of the original idea. Michałowski turned out to be much more effective in this field. However, he passed over earlier initiatives, which possibly had a negative impact on the image of Prof. E. Bulanda.

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