Wiktor Czermak i lwowska edycja Śpiewów historycznych Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza
Wiktor Czermak and the Lwów edition of the Historical Songs by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Author(s): Mariola HoszowskaSubject(s): Social history, Polish Literature, Culture and social structure , 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: the Polish Society in Lwów; Wiktor Czermak; the Historical Songs by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz; Polish historiography at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
Summary/Abstract: Written in 1808–1813 and published in 1816, the Historical Songs by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz played a significant role in the post-partitioned era, anticipating later calls for writing history to keep up the nation’s spirits. In the neoromantic era Niemcewicz’s Songs, which recount glorious events of Polish history, were used as a means of educating the peasants to help them become politically conscious members of the national community. In the mid-1890s the Polish Society in Lwów, founded in 1883 by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, published a poetic part of Niemcewicz’s work. The poems were published along with commentaries from Wiktor Czermak (1863–1913). Affiliated to the University in Kraków, Czermak was a graduate of the Lwow University. The publication also contains a biography of Niemcewicz – the poet, the historian, the politician and the publicist.
Journal: Klio Polska
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 25-50
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish