2023

Włodzimierz Kulczycki (1862–1936) – przedstawiciel elity naukowej Akademii Medycyny Weterynaryjnej we Lwowie

  • Author: Tomasz Sikorski
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-0793
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 7-41
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.01
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1101.pdf

Włodzimierz Kulczycki (1862–1936) – a representative of the scientific elite of the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in Lwow

Vladimir Kulchytsky (1852–1936) was one of the leading representatives of the scientific elite of the city of Lviv. He was a veterinarian, zoologist, an outstanding mammalian anatomist, professor, pro-rector and rector of the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in Lviv. He did his studies in natural sciences in Vienna, then in Lviv. He also received a diploma in veterinary medicine. From 1882 to 1934 he worked at the Lviv Academy of Veterinary Medicine, first as an assistant, then as a lecturer, and from 1906 as a professor, head of the Department (Department) of Descriptive Anatomy, Topography, Histology and Embryology (later, after changes, the Department of Comparative Anatomy). He also worked as a veterinarian at the Lviv Horse Tram Society, as a city veterinarian and as a veterinarian for the control of cattle and meat on the Lviv railroads. Prof. Kulchytsky’s scientific output includes about 60 publications (compact works, studies and scientific articles, discussions, reviews, etc.). The area of research and scientific interests of V. Kulchytsky was extremely wide and at the same time diverse. He became famous as an outstanding mammalian anatomist and zoologist, creator of anatomical preparations (continuing the work of Prof. Henryk Kadyi). He conducted research work on avian anatomy and physiology, the anatomy and etiology of cattle and horse diseases. He was also involved in parasitology, hippiatry, conducted interdisciplinary studies on the borderline between ethnography and ethnology, was interested in climatology and demography of the countries of the Orient and Central Asia, Indian studies and deep-sea fauna of the oceans. He skillfully combined his collecting passion for carpentry (1906–1936) with orientalist research, becoming an undisputed authority in this field, while amassing the largest collection of old oriental textiles on Polish soil. In 1934 he received an honorary doctorate from the Academy of Veterinary Medicine in Lviv for his outstanding achievements in the field of science and his attitude during the occupation of Lviv by Russia (1914–1915).

Academy of Veterinary Medicine Vladimir Kulchytsky (1862–1936) Akademia Medycyny Weterynaryjnej Włodzimierz Kulczycki (1862–1936) historia medycyny history of medicine biografistyka historia nauki history of science Lwów Lviv biography

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Kandyd w potrzasku. Juliana Bruna długa podróż z Brukseli do Moskwy (1937–1941)

  • Author: Eryk Krasucki
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4858-1011
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 43-91
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.02
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1102.pdf

Candide in the pitfall. Julian Brun’s long journey from Brussels to Moscow (1937–1941)

Julian Brun (1886–1942) was one of the most recognizable activists of the Communist Party of Poland in the interwar period. His journalism beyond the narrow confines of party debates was highly regarded. An example is his studies of the works of Stefan Żeromski and the national question, which can be seen as an attempt to get closer to the Polish intelligentsia and to take a new look at topics that had been treated uniformly and without subtlety in the KPP until then. Entering the party leadership in the mid-1930s, Brun clearly exposed himself to Stalinist repression, which was to lead to the liquidation of the organization and the murder of its leaders. This, however, did not happen. The text is a study of the situation in which Julian Brun found himself between 1937 and 1941, staying abroad – in Belgium and France – without a party assignment, in constant anxiety about his own future. In addition to reflecting on the biographical situation, the article, written on the basis of documents from Polish and Russian archives, also brings knowledge about the functioning of the mechanisms of the Comintern apparatus.

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Teofil Głowacki. Socjalista, komunista, sekretarz Centralnego Komitetu Ludowego

  • Author: Jakub Woroncow
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4275-7370
  • Author: Piotr Grudka
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3390-6987
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 93-124
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.03
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1103.pdf

Teofil Głowacki. Socialist, communist, secretary of the Central People’s Committee

The article presents a biographical portrait of Teofil Głowacki (1906–1971), in the interwar period, an activist of the PPS and KPP, a trade unionist and publicist, during the Second World War a member of the editorial office of „Sztandar Wolności” in Minsk, and then a participant in the left-socialist conspiracy and the founder of the Central Committee After the war. He was a journalist, a political prisoner, an MP for two terms in the parliament of the People’s Republic of Poland, and the deputy editor-in-chief of „Express Wieczorny”. The article is also an attempt to supplement the history of the Polish conspiracy during World War II from outside the leading current.

Worker’s Party of Polish Socialists Central People’s Committee Robotnicza Partia Polskich Socjalistów Centralny Komitet Ludowy Teofil Głowacki Komunistyczna Partia Polski Polish Socialist Party Polska Partia Socjalistyczna Communist Party of Poland

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„J’ai des yeux de Cracovien”. Jean Van Ghele (1912–1985) konsul francuski w Krakowie i jego inwigilacja

  • Author: Radosław Ptaszyński
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7508-0496
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 125-151
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.04
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1104.pdf

„J’ai des yeux de Cracovien”. Jean Van Ghele (1912–1985), French consul in Cracow in the sight of Polish Security Service

The article is a biographical sketch of the biograpy of French consul in Krakow, who served as in the years 1956–1961. The background is the life of Krakow at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the extended and complicated operation of the communist secret police. The text presents broad aspects of counterintelligence activities in the system of an authoritarian state. The context is also the warming in Polish-French relations, which was significant after the turn of October 1956, bringing cultural, scientific and regulatory effects.

counterintelligence relacje polsko-francuskie dyplomacja Polish-French relations diplomacy kontrwywiad Krakow

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Ksiądz Jerzy Popiełuszko w doniesieniach tajnych współpracowników Służby Bezpieczeństwa

  • Author: Katarzyna Jóźwik
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6747-4284
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 153-180
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.05
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1105.pdf

Father Jerzy Popiełuszko in denouncing reports by secret collaborators of the Security Service

Despite the large number of publications about the figure and activities of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, there is a shortage of reliable academic studies analysing the documentation concerning the priest produced by the communist apparatus of repression. The aim of the present text is to present the reports of secret collaborators focused on Father Popieluszko and an extensive historical analysis of their activities. For the purposes of this text, the work files and personal files of three secret collaborators with pseudonyms were analysed: „Jankowski”, „Kustosz”, „Tarcza/Miecz”. The personalities of these persons and the file references were previously known and mentioned, mainly by journalists, but no solid scholarly work, apart from the files of tw „Jankowski”, has been done so far. The records of tw „Janusz” and the steelworkers „Bogdan”, „Uczciwy” and „Fredek”, which have not been mentioned so far, were also discussed. The basic sources for investigating this issue are the materials produced by the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, above all personal files, work folders and records from card files.

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Dzieciństwo i młodość a socjalizacja polityczna Mariana Jurczyka

  • Author: Michał Siedziako
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0799-0222
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 181-234
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.06
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1106.pdf

The childhood and youth of Marian Jurczyk and his political socialization

The article discusses the biography of Marian Jurczyk in the context of the „primary principle” formulated on the basis of research on political socialization. The author first analyses the biography of the title character during his childhood and youth. Then he discusses Jurczyk’s trade union and political activities during the period when he became a public figure and performed a number of important functions, including: chairman of the regional „Solidarity” in Szczecin, senator of the Republic of Poland and the president of Szczecin. He points out those of its elements that testified to the way he was shaped as a child and young person as part of his political socialization.

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Stanisław August Morawski – wybitna, niemedialna postać Polonii włoskiej

  • Author: Maria Rółkowska
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5473-9092
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 235-251
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.07
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1107.pdf

Stanisław August Morawski – an outstanding, non-media figure of the Polish community in Italy

The aim of the article is to present the biography of Stanislaw August Morawski (1922–2019) – an outstanding figure of the Italian Polonia, who avoided media publicity. On the basis of a few available book sources and biographies published after his death in the Polish and Polonia press, introduced his life in Poland and in Italy and a huge number of his activities for Poland, Poles and the Polish community in Italy. S. Morawski was, among others, for many years the president of the Rome Foundation J.Z. Umiastowska, the Lanckoroński Foundation, co-founder of the Union of Poles in Italy and a member of its board, author of many publications on the history of Poles in the Apennine Peninsula.

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Doceniony przez Sejm. Wojciech Korfanty – Patron Roku 2023 roku i jego miejsce we współczesnej przestrzeni publicznej

  • Author: Marek Białokur
  • Institution: Uniwersytet Opolski
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8475-033X
  • Author: Teresa Maresz
  • Institution: Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1751-3948
  • Year of publication: 2023
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  • Pages: 253-324
  • DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2023.08
  • PDF: pbs/11/pbs1108.pdf

Appreciated by the Sejm. Wojciech Korfanty – Patron of the Year 2023 and his place in contemporary public space

Round anniversaries of important historical events are often a stimulus for an indepth analysis of their historical significance for the fate of individual countries and nations. The above statement also applies to historical figures. One such figure is Wojciech Korfanty, who in many respects played a special role in the recent history of Upper Silesia and Poland. With this in mind, in 2023, when the Year of Wojciech Korfanty is celebrated in Poland, established on the 150th anniversary of his birth, the authors of the article decided to first analyze the path that the motion for adopting a resolution establishing the Year of Korfanty traveled in the Sejm. In the second part, the authors focused on the multidimensional presence of Wojciech Korfanty in public space. By this term we understand such forms of commemoration as monuments, commemorative plaques, patronage of schools and institutions, street names, publications or murals. The analysis carried out for the purposes of the article showed that Wojciech Korfanty, as one of the so-called „Fathers of Polish Independence”, he was fully deservedly appreciated by MPs, and with each year of Independent Poland (after 1989), he also gains in importance as a figure more and more visible in the public space. And although the article did not discuss the implemented initiatives commemorating his figure in 2023, undoubtedly the researcher who will undertake this task at the beginning of 2024 will have rich and diverse source material to analyze.

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