Szkoła Główna (1862–1869). Źródła i stan badań
The Main School (1862–1869). Sources and condition of research

Author(s): Grzegorz Bąbiak
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Main School; archives; documents; bibliography
Summary/Abstract: In this article the most important literature and the condition of research on Warsaw Main School are presented. Because of the loss of Main School’s archives during Second World War the modern scholars have to base on materials published before the war or they have to find some information in diaries, letters and archives of other institutions. The studies of Main School’s alumna (Kraushar, Chlebowski, Bełza, Méyet) take an important place in these materials. The modern scholars are obliged to exercise caution in their judgments because of subjectivism of the Main School’s alumna. At the close of the interwar period, when the generation of the Main School’s alumna exited, the first objective essays concerning the Main School started to come out. These essays could be the synthesis of the Main School’s achievements unless an outbreak of war. Another interest of the Main School’s history took place at the close of 1960s due to Janina Kulczycka-Saloni and her students (between them Stanisław Fita – the author of the first monograph about “Main School’s generation”). Exhaustive bibliography on the Main School’s history as well as last decades achievements aren’t too extensive despite several years passed. This bibliography contents: mainly the articles and the chapters from the joint publications and some books on history of separate disciplines (law, medicine and Polish studies). A lot of new texts we can find in the publications edited on the occasion of two-hundred-years of establishment of the University of Warsaw in “Monumenta Universitatis Varsoviensis” series.

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