Harmonia świata a osuszanie fekaliów. Juliusz Świecianowski i jego twórczość
The Harmony of the World and the Drying of Faeces. Juliusz Świecianowski and His Works
Author(s): Małgorzata Omilanowska-KiljańczykSubject(s): History, Cultural history, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Świecianowski; history of aesthetics; history of 19th-century architecture; history of cremation; history of technology; history of hygiene
Summary/Abstract: The Harmony of the World and the Drying of Faeces. Juliusz Świecianowski and His Works. Juliusz Świecianowski (1834–1900) was a member of the Academia di San Luca, Academia di Belle Arti in Bologna and the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon in Rome (today Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere). He was an architect by education but, above all, a theoretician and inventor. He published his universalistic aesthetic theories alluding to occultism and Kabbalah in many languages. At the same time, he described and patented practical technical devices – faecal dryers, crematoria, and disinfection furnaces – whose task was to free the world from harmful miasms. He was remembered as an eccentric and visionary, believing that the essence of the world’s beauty lies in harmony resulting from the combining of all aspects of nature and human creation and that the salvation for this beauty is the development of the art of hygiene, which will free the world from the harmful fumes of civilization.
Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 31-59
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Polish