„O powołaniu i obowiązkach młodzieży akademickiej”.
“O powołaniu i obowiązkach młodzieży akademickiej” (“On Vocation and Duties of University Students”)

Kazimierz Brodziński in Defence of University

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to an analysis of a 1826 speech O powołaniu i obowiązkach młodzieży akademickiej (On Vocation and Duties of University Students) delivered by Kazimierz Brodziński (1791–1835), Polish literature professor at the Royal University of Warsaw. The speech intended to explain the students the system of studies and contained pieces of advice about the student’s individual work and conformation to the University’s rules and regulations. The paper additionally had another layer, unnoticed by scholars to this date, namely a voice in the dispute about the future of university. Facing the plans of the Department of Education that aimed to split the University into specialist schools, a part of which was to be located outside Warsaw, Brodziński stresses the unity of university teaching and the importance of general subjects as, for example, philosophy or literary history. Brodziński also kept clear distance from the then system of supervising university students. His views on university didactics are confronted with the conceptions of Józef Kasalanty Szaniawski (1764–1843), the State’s Councillor and a conservative politician, who was in charge of education of the Kingdom of Poland.

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