Szymon Askenazy, professor at the Lviv University and his books

Abstract

The article provides information about the life and scientific and pedagogical activities of the historian and diplomat Shimon Ashkenazi, prof. of Lviv and Warsaw Universities. Working in the first, he created the Lviv School of Polish Historians ("Ashkenazi School"), which did not lag behind the Lviv Ukrainian Historical School of Hrushevskyi and was competitive with the Krakow School; founded a series of "Monographs" on Modern history; significantly deepened some aspects of the history of the XVIII—XIX c. A brief review of the source literature on Ashkenazi is presented and the importance of his work for modern researchers is emphasized. Having started his career in Lviv as an intern at the Ossolineum Library, he thoroughly researched its funds, especially related to the history of Western Ukraine. The authors gave a historical and bibliographic description of a number of Ashkenazi publications, for the first time made a bibliological review of those of his books stored in the funds of the Department of Library Collections and Historical Collections of the Institute of Bibliography of the National Library of Ukraine, the Scientific Library of the Lviv National University and the CDIA in Lviv; analyzed the source material of the provenance on them. The names of some book owners have been identified and bibliological information on the attribution of book marks has been presented.