Władysław Konopczyński

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Władysław Konopczyński (1932)

Władysław Konopczyński , pseudonyms Dantyszek, Korzonek (* 26. November 1880 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; † 12. July 1952 in Młynik in Ojców ) was a Polish historian , professor of the Jagiellonian University , a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society and Polish Academy of Learning , Co-initiator and first main editor of the Polski Słownik Biograficzny .

Life

Konopczyński was the son of the engineer Ignacy Konopczyński and his wife Ludwika geb. Obrąpalska. He graduated from the 4th grammar school in Warsaw, then he studied law at the Warsaw University (1899-1904) and history at the University of Lemberg (1907-1908) and received his doctorate there in 1908 under Szymon Askenazy . In 1911 he completed his habilitation at the Jagiellonian University. In 1917 he became professor of modern history there, and in 1939 he became dean of the philological faculty. He was arrested during the special campaign in Krakow and imprisoned in Krakow, Breslau and in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1940 he was released and attended the secret underground university. After the war he was again dean of the Jagiellonian University. In 1948 he was forced by communists to give up his work and to resign from all functions and offices because his publications were "chauvinist and full of racist fury".

plant

Konopczyński's work focused on the history of Poland in the 16th to 18th centuries, the history of the Polish legal system and the history of Polish parliamentarism. Together with Wacław Sobieski he is considered to be the founder of the so-called new Kraków history school. He initiated the historical documentary center and gave a. a. Sejm protocols of the 18th century ( Dyaryusze sejmowe z wieku XVIII ), diaries Stanisław August Poniatowski and the great general encyclopedia ( Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna Ilustrowana ). In 1921 he presented the project of creating the Polski Słownik Biograficzny and was its first chief editor from 1931–1948.

Fonts (selection)

  • Mrok i świt (1911)
  • A Brief Outline of Polish History (1915, with Karol Lutostański)
  • Geneza i ustanowienie Rady Nieustającej (1917)
  • Liberum veto (1918)
  • Przyczyny upadku Polski (1918)
  • Dzieje parlamentaryzmu angielskiego (1922)
  • Polska a Szwecja (1924)
  • Stanisław Konarski (1926)
  • Kazimierz Pułaski. Życiorys (1931)
  • Dzieje Polski nowożytnej (1936, 2 volumes) ISBN 8321107303
  • Konfederacja Barska (1936–1938, 2 volumes) ISBN 8385218076 (volume 1) ISBN 8385218068 (volume 2)
  • Polska a Turcja, 1683–1792 (1936)
  • Czasy absolutyzmu 1648–1788 (1938, in: Wielka historia powszechna )
  • Wojny religijne i absolutyzm (1938, in: Wielka historia powszechna , with Kazimierz Piwarski)
  • Anglia a Polska w XVIII wieku (1947)
  • Fryderyk II Wielki | Fryderyk Wielki a Polska (1947)
  • Kwestia bałtycka do XX wieku (1947)
  • Chronologia sejmów polskich 1493–1793 (1948)

literature

  • Biogramy uczonych polskich , Part I: Book 2: K – O, Wrocław 1984.
  • Jochen August (Ed.): "Special Campaign Krakau". The arrest of the Krakow scientists on November 6, 1939. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930908-28-X , p. 297

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article “Konopczyński, Władysław” in: Encyklopedia Polski , author Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, Kraków 1996, p. 305.
personal data
SURNAME Konopczyński, Władysław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dantyszek, Korzonek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian, professor at Jagiellonian University, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1952
Place of death Młynik near Ojców