Porozbiorowe dzieje Polski w refleksji historiograficzno-politycznej Stanisława Tarnowskiego

Abstract

Post-partition history of Poland in Stanisław Tarnowski’s historiographic-political reflection In 1895 Stanisław Tarnowski – a one-man institution in Kraków at the time: a highly esteemed professor of history of literature at the Jagiellonian University; an author of numerous historical and critical works; and a prominent representative of the Wawel town’s “rulers of hearts and minds”, group of conciliatory conservatives called Stańczycy – published a book Nasze dzieje w ostatnich stu latach [Our History of the Last Hundred Years], later reissued twice, in 1896 and 1901 (the third edition appeared under a slightly modified title Nasze dzieje w XIX wieku [Our History in the 19th Century]). Stanisław Tarnowski’s critics alleged, and not without reason, that “he was just a politi- cian, both at the [university] department, and in the [Galician] Diet, and the [State] School Council and in the books themselves”. Therefore, it is worth asking about the vision of the post-partition his- tory that this leading ideologue of Stańczycy group drew. Such was the aim of the author in this text.