Franciszek Jaworski (1873–1914) – pierwszy historiograf biżuterii polskiej
Franciszek Jaworski (1873–1914) – the first historiographer of Polish jewelery

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the figure of Franciszek Jaworski (1873–1914), a historian, antiquarian, collector, journalist, and journalist from Lviv. His works on Polish historical rings from 1911–1913 are the first to document these items from the end of the 18th century and the 19th century. Especially the work on rings, written in 1913, had a significant impact on the subsequent literature on Polish jewelry. Its author was the first researcher to perceive the ring as an important historical object, a document of the culture of bygone times, seemingly only a small, meaningless object. The items collected in the work Historical Polish Rings were divided by Jaworski into groups arranged chronologically. The four oldest rings related to the decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the remaining 114 were related to people and events of the 19th century (the last of the rings was from 1894). The ring typology introduced by Franciszek Jaworski became important for the subsequent systematization of Polish jewelry. Although it was a group of works accidentally collected by him, it became a basis for the next generations to distinguish a new category of jewelry, known today as “patriotic jewellery”. For this reason, Franciszek Jaworski should be treated as the first historiographer who drew attention to the need for research in this unrecognized field with his study.

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