ENGLISH AND GERMAN STUDIES AT THE JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS: THE IDEAL OF A SCHOLAR AND CHALLENGES OF REALITY
ENGLISH AND GERMAN STUDIES AT THE JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS: THE IDEAL OF A SCHOLAR AND CHALLENGES OF REALITY

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the creation of an ideal of a scholar and its implementation by the circles of English and German specialists at the Jagiellonian University in the interwar period. He considers how the academic activity was combined with “service for the state,” increasingly imposed by the reality of the time. The choice of university Germanists and Anglicists from Cracow results from the obvious interconnections between the two groups of scholars and from the fact that by using their example it is easy to see how their specific mission was understood, interpreted and how it translated into everyday business relations. It turns out that academic success did not always guarantee a high position or even remaining in the job. Often, they were determined by various completely different factors.

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