Józef Umiński, Episkopat polski z pierwszej połowy XX wieku, opr. wyd. Sylwia Grochowina, Jan Sziling, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2016, ss. 146.
Józef Umiński, Polish Episcopate from the first half of the 20th century, ed. ed. Sylwia Grochowina, Jan Sziling, Scientific Publisher of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń 2016, pp. 146.

Summary/Abstract: The 20th century of Polish history abounded in extremely important events. The state-changing state re-emerging after 123 years of partitioning and then shaping the reality of the inter-war period, the events of the Second World War and the first years of communist reality constitute one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the Polish nation. An extremely important role in all these events was played by the Catholic Church, including its hierarchs. The observer and participant in the history of this time was also Fr. Józef Umiński, one of the best-known Polish researchers in the history of the Catholic Church until the 1950s. Before his death, which took place on May 1, 1954, he managed on July 11, 1951 to finish work on the text of the Polish Episcopate of the first half of the twentieth century. He ceded the right to publish it to the Scientific Society in Toruń, with the proviso that it could take place not earlier than 50 years after the end of writing the text, that is in 1991. Since then, another 25 years have passed and the text was not prepared until 2016 case of the academic staff of the History Department of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń: dr hab. Sylwia Grochowiny and prof. Dr. hab. Jan Sziling. At the same time, it should be noted that the work of Fr. Umiński appeared as a source text and sensu stricte should be classified as a source of a memoristic nature. The author of the source text himself pointed to the fact that this is not a scientific work, but should be treated as personal remarks about the members of the Polish Episcopate: "[...] I present the contents here only from memory, without any data at hand at the moment. written or printed, and according to my mind, on the basis of knowledge acquired in various ways (sometimes even ordinary rumors, because it also has its meaning) over the years several or several dozens outlined [...] "(p. 1).

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