Aleksander Brückner – ein polnischer Slawist in Berlin – oder die Einsamkeit der Grenzgänger
Aleksander Brückner – a Polish Slavist in Berlin, or loneliness in the borderland

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents Aleksander Brückner as a Polish scholar in Berlin. The focus is mainly on his picture in the eyes of German Slavists. The author revises the rigorous evaluation under which Brückner was placed by her generation raised on structuralism. Brückner is still considered an icon of Berlin Slavonic studies, and his professorship has set many unbeatable records, from assuming the office at the young age of 24 and holding it for forty years, to the wide diversity of proposed lectures and the magnitude of his written legacy. It is small wonder then, that Brückner anniversaries are still seen as opportunities for scholarly meetings (at the University of Bonn in 1978, the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1979, the Free University of Berlin in 1989 and again at the Humboldt University in 1999). Materials from these symposia, however, are not widely available in Poland, and the opinions on the Berlin professor less known.

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