Między amatorskimi pasjami a profesjonalną agendą naukową. Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu jako ośrodek wydawniczy do 1939 roku

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Between amateur passions and a professional academic agenda. The Society of the Friends of Learning in Przemyśl as a publishing center before 1939 The article discusses the publishing activity of the Society of the Friends of Learning in Przemyśl (TPN) from its establishment in 1909 until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Publishing academic works was one of the TPN statutory goals beside e.g. running a museum, a library, an archive, conducting archaeological work and activity promoting various fields of knowledge. Despite lack of a specialized publishing agenda, thanks to voluntary work of a few people, particularly the historian Jan Smołka, the TPN published valuable editions of sources, archival aids and monographs. Seven volumes of the “Rocznik TPN” periodical were also published with over a dozen articles, mainly in the field of history and related disciplines. The authors of the TPN publications were mainly local researchers as well as academics from Lviv and Kraków. Thanks to its management of the town’s archive material and the library with an extensive book collection, the Society created conditions for carrying out historical research.