Abstract
The subject of this article is scientific reflection about the works on the history of Vilnius University had written in the first two decades of the twentieth century by the cultural historian, Ludwik Janowski (1878-1921), who was associated with the scientific community in Kiev and Krakow, and in 1919-1921 he was a professor at The Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. Janowski’s interest on the history of Vilnius University was a kind of a research passion all his life. Though he failed to write a historiographic synthesis that it has been planning. In his works he tried to correct and supplement the research on the history of Vilnius University. His studies and books compose a specific synthesis in fragments, which shows in a multi-variant narrative the most important stages and factors in the development of this great center of science and culture.
Highlights
The subject of this article is scientific reflection about the works on the history of Vilnius University had written in the first two decades of the twentieth century by the cultural historian, Ludwik Janowski (1878-1921), who was associated with the scientific community in Kiev and Krakow, and in 1919-1921 he was a professor at The Stefan Batory University in Vilnius
Though he failed to write a historiographic synthesis that it has been planning. In his works he tried to correct and supplement the research on the history of Vilnius University. His studies and books compose a specific synthesis in fragments, which shows in a multi-variant narrative the most important stages and factors in the development of this great center of science and culture
Zakończyła się wraz z jego śmiercią w Wilnie i pochówkiem na Rossie
Summary
Między innymi z powodu wojennej zawieruchy, w czasie której zaginęła część jego materiałów, a także słabego stanu zdrowia, Janowski nie pozostawił po sobie syntezy dziejów Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego. W promieniach Wilna i Krzemieńca, Wilno 1923. 18 Wartość prac Janowskiego, jakkolwiek różniących się jakościowo, podkreślał Stanisława Pigoń: „Zwłaszcza dla badań nad historią dawnego Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego zdobycze Janowskiego – czy to ujęte w skończone ramy rozpraw, czy rozrzucone w przygodnych recenzjach i sprawozdaniach, czy wreszcie nawet odziane w szatę popularnego felietonu dziennikarskiego – stanowią pozycje we wszech miar poważne” Choć jego propozycja ujmowania dziejów Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego nie była zapewne bezdyskusyjna, to cechowała ją wewnętrzna logika, metodologiczna konsekwencja i stylistyczna spójność[20]
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