Ze Lwowa do Krakowa. Lwowscy historycy wychowania w Krakowie

Abstract

This article presents the story of scientists investigating the educational past who came to Cracow from Lviv. The author makes an attempt to describe the situation of those historians in the last years before the Second World War and during the years of occupation. The paper also presents information on the scientific status of the researchers, to show who were those who arrived in Cracow from Lviv. The label ”Lviv historians of education” is applied to those researchers who were educated in Lviv in the field of history of education, and participated in the work of Lviv societies and committees aiming at the popularization of educational past. Being born in Lviv is secondary in this respect. After accepting such criteria, the persons taken into consideration are the pupils of Stanisław Łempicki (1886–1947), educated by himself and other distinguished masters associated with the Lviv University. Among those scientists, the following must be enumerated: Czesław Lechicki (1906-2001), Karol Lewicki (1909–1991), priest Alfons Schletz (1911–1981), and Józef Skoczek (1903-1966). In the period of war and occupation, they often cooperated within the structures of underground education. In 1945 they were forced to leave Lviv and to search for a new workplace in other Polish academic centres. One of those centres that admitted Lviv scientists was Cracow. In Cracow, they continued the research, which in some cases had been started in the Lviv period. Among the achievements of the above-mentioned historians, the following research directions can be listed: history of culture and of cultural patronage, history of books, libraries and periodicals, biographies, and editing of source materials.