Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences Polska Akademia Nauk - Stacja Naukowa w Wiedniu |
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| legal form | Institute of an Academy of Sciences |
| founding | 1991 |
| Seat | Vienna 3 , Boerhaavegasse |
| main emphasis | Polish-Austrian academic exchange, management of a public library |
| Website | www.viennapan.org |
The Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( Polish Polska Akademia Nauk - Stacja Naukowa w Wiedniu , English Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna ) is a science and research institute of Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN) in Vienna, which on 25 January 1991 Founded.
History and tasks
The house at Boerhaavegasse 25 had already been bought in 1908 by the Polish Elementary School Society in Vienna . In this Polish house educational institutions, a library and a reading room for the Poles abroad in Habsburg Austria-Hungary were set up. The operators were the priest Julian Łukaszkiewicz and Helena Baroness Ziemialkowska. In the First Republic, the board of trustees was then headed by the Polish ambassador in Vienna . In 1980 the project had to be closed due to lack of funds, the assets were transferred to the PAN. After the fall of the Iron Curtain , the latter decided to revitalize the desolate house. With the free space, rooms of the organizations of the Poles Abroad , the Association of Poles in Austria Strzecha and the Working Group of Polish Organizations in Austria “Forum of Poland” were made available.
The organization has experienced a particular boom since Poland joined the EU (2004) . It supports Polish and Austrian science in mutual contacts, propagates Polish science, organizes specialist conferences, popular science lectures, exhibitions and presentations, and has been running an important Eastern European library since 2009. Numerous research projects are also carried out and coordinated by the center.
Library of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
In 2009 a library on Polonica , Slavic Studies , Austro-Polish relations and Eastern European studies was opened. The basis is an estate of Otto Forst de Battaglia , which his heir Jakub Forst de Battaglia donated to the Ossolineum National Institute in Wrocław to be deposited in Vienna. This collection includes over 4000 volumes, primarily on Polish literature and Poland in general, including several books and prints from the early modern period, such as an original of the Kronika to jest Histhorya świata ... by Marcin Bielski from 1597.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Lanckoroński and his handwritten estate in the holdings of the Austrian National Library ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Edition project of the Josephinische Landesaufnahme von Galicia, the so-called Miegkarte ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Polonica in Austria
- ↑ Ceremonial opening of the library of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Library of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna ( Memento from August 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Academic Portal Austria: Libraries , portal.ac.at
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 37.9 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 29.9 ″ E
