Societas Jablonoviana

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The Societas Jablonoviana , also Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Polish: Towarzystwo Naukowe Jabłonowskich), is the oldest still existing scholarly society for the promotion of German-Polish scientific and cultural relations. The company is based in Leipzig .

Foundation and task

The society was founded in 1769 at the University of Leipzig under the name Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften - Societas Jablonoviana by the Polish magnate and imperial prince Josef Alexander Jablonowski (1711–1777). In 1774 the establishment was approved by the Saxon sovereign Friedrich August the Just . According to the deed of foundation, the society should annually put out prize questions in the field of mathematics or physics, economics and in particular in the field of German-Polish history and the history of the Slavic peoples in order to reward the best academic work received.

Historical significance and effect

The works that have been awarded prizes by the society have been published in the Acta Societatis Jablonovianae since 1772 (each with a publication date for the previous year from which the prize-winning works originated). One of the first writings to be honored by the society was a treatise by August Ludwig von Schlözers (1735–1809) (= Acta Societatis Jablonovianae I 3, 1771). Since 1802 the works have appeared in the follow-up series Acta Societatis Jablonovianae nova , since 1847 in the series Preisschriften, crowned and published by the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig . From 1829, the company provided annual reports on its activities.

With part of its foundation capital, the company gave the decisive impetus to found the (Royal) Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1846 . The establishment of the first German professorship for Slavic studies , to which August Leskien (1840–1916) was appointed to Leipzig in 1870 , also goes back to the company . In addition to Leskien, other outstanding scientists who taught in Leipzig were involved in the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft, including the mathematician Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (1802–1896), the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–1891), and the economists Wilhelm Roscher (1817–1894 ) and Karl Bücher (1847–1930), the zoologist Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898), the cultural historian Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915) and the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002).

Today's tasks and effects

The Society of Sciences survived the Nazi dictatorship , but paradoxically had to cease its activities from 1948, as the university politicians of the Soviet occupation zone or the former GDR had no interest in the continued existence of this bourgeois scholars' association. At the instigation of Polish cultural politicians, however, the company's activity was revived in 1978. Since then, the association has had the (shortened) name Societas Jablonoviana - Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig . In 1992 the company was spun off from Leipzig University and converted into a registered association. Since 1999, the society has been awarding the Jablonowski Prize every two years to personalities who have made outstanding contributions to the development of scientific and cultural relations between Poland and Germany.

The company is managed by a board of directors, headed by the President . The current president is Hans Henning Hahn (born 1947), holder of the chair for Eastern European history at the University of Oldenburg . Today the board consists mainly of German-Polish historians from Eastern Central Europe and Slavists, including the Polish historian Jacek Staszewski (born 1933), professor emeritus at the Institute for History and Archive Studies at the Copernicus University in Thorn , the German historian Klaus Zernak ( born 1931), professor emeritus at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin , and the director of the Sorbian Institute in Bautzen , Dietrich Scholze (born 1950). The management is in the hands of Ewa Tomicka-Krumrey from the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe , who is also a member of the company's board.

Winner of the Jablonowski Prize

literature

  • Acta Societatis Jablonovianae , 5 vols., Leipzig 1771 / 72-1779 / 80; Acta Societatis Jablonovianae nova , 9 vols., Leipzig 1801 / 02-1845; Prize writings, crowned and published by the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig , Vol. 1–58, Leipzig 1847–1943.
  • Annual report of the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften , Leipzig 1829–1942 / 43.
  • Dietrich Scholze, Ewa Tomicka-Krumrey (ed.): With word and deed. German-Polish cultural and scientific dialogue since the 18th century (published on the 225th anniversary of the Societas Jablonoviana at the University of Leipzig 1774–1999), Leipzig 2001.
  • Ewa Tomicka-Krumrey: Collection and structuring of information from various sources about German-Polish relations at Societas Jablonoviana e. V. zu Leipzig, Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Institute for Library Science and Scientific Information, thesis, 1994.

Online resources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Societas Jablonoviana. Societas Jablonoviana e. V., accessed May 30, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Awarding of the Jabłonowski Prize 2019 in Warsaw. In: dhi.waw.pl. German Historical Institute Warsaw , November 14, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 (German).