Udział młodzieży akademickiej w przedsięwzięciach bibliograficznych w okresie zaborów (druga połowa XIX i początek XX wieku)

Abstract

In the second half of the 19th century and in early 20th century, one could observe an increase in the appearance of bibliographic studies initiated or prepared by Polish university students. This new form of bibliographic work was promoted by scientific societies, especially Czytelnia Akademicka - an association of young people studying at University of Lviv and Jagiellonian University. Created in the 1860s under the auspices of leading academics, it was further developed in scientific societies with bibliography-oriented profiles. Lviv pioneered quantitative and qualitative bibliographic projects and it was there, that the Historians Society, under the direction of Ludwik Finkel, created the fundamental Bibliography of Polish History, a basic scientific aid to historians, as well as Alexander Hirschberg’s Bibliography of Uprisings of the Polish People. It was there too that the first attempts were made to compile current bibliography in the field of literature and philosophy. Students at Jagiellonian University were also bibliographically active, although to a much lesser extent. For example, Franciszek Gawełek initiated and individually developed a Retrospective Bibliography of Polish Ethnography. Also, students of the Faculty of Imperial Law of the University of Warsaw (located in the Kingdom of Poland) contributed to Adolf Suligowski’s works on the Bibliography of Polish Law of 19th and 20th Centuries