Wojciech Kętrzyński

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Wojciech Kętrzyński (born July 11, 1838 in Lötzen as Adalbert von Winkler , † January 15, 1918 in Lemberg ) was a Polish historian and director of the Ossolinski National Library .

Life

Kętrzyński was born as Adalbert von Winkler. His father Josef von Winkler (1801–1846) was a gendarme in Lötzen. After his death Adalbert came to the school for orphans of soldiers in Potsdam , where he was educated from 1849-1853. 1853–1855 he attended the Progymnasium in Lötzen, then the grammar school in Rastenburg .

In 1856 he received a letter from his younger sister with the news about his Polish ancestry and about the old family name Kętrzyński, which she had found in family records. He comes from a Polish aristocratic family from the Kashubian village of Kętrzyno near Neustadt in West Prussia . In 1821 his father took the name of Winkler , a translation of the name Kętrzyński. This aroused his interest in Polishism and the Polish language. After graduating from high school in 1859, he began studying philosophy at the Albertina University in Königsberg . In 1861 he officially changed his name to Wojciech Kętrzyński . He spent the holidays in 1862 with his aunt Jadwiga (Hedwig) Krohnke in Warsaw . In the January uprising of 1863 he organized the transport of arms for the rebels. He was arrested on September 11, 1863 and taken to the prison in the High Gate in Allenstein . After an acquittal, he was arrested again and imprisoned in Moabit . On December 23, 1864 he was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the fortress Glatz . On December 12, 1866 he defended his doctoral thesis De bello a Boleslao Magno cum Henrico rege Germaniae gesto a 1002-1005 at the Königsberg University . 1868-1870 he was employed as a librarian at JK Działyński in Kurnik near Posen . In 1869 he became an honorary member of the Poznan Society of Friends of Science . In 1870 he moved to Lviv, where he worked from June 1, 1870 as a scientific secretary, in 1874 curator and in 1876 director of the Ossoliński National Library . On August 24, 1875 he married in Berent Vincentina Malvina v. Rautenberg-Klinski .

He mainly dealt with the Masurian ethnic group in Warmia and Masuria . He gave Oskar Kolberg his collection of Masurian folk songs. In 1883 he published the collection of poems from the song book of a Germanized (1854–1862) , which was confiscated by the Prussian and Austrian authorities. He has scientifically edited about 70 medieval texts and 128 documents from the period 1105-1399. The town of Rastenburg in East Prussia, Rastembork in Polish from 1945 , was renamed Kętrzyn after him on May 7, 1946 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonina Kłoskowska: National Cultures at the grass-root level. Central European University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-963-9116-83-2 , p. 136 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Wiesław Roman Gogan: Rastenburg in the past. History of the city . Ed .: Kulturzentrum Ostpreußen, Ellingen. Self-published by Kulturzentrum Ostpreußen, Ellingen 2013, p. 47 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kętrzyński, Wojciech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkler, Adalbert von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Soldering
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1918
Place of death Lviv