Bazylejski mieszczanin w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów – Reinhard Wasserhun (1586–1652) i jego sztambuch
Burgher from Basel in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Reinhard Wasserhun (1586–1652) and His Album Amicorum

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the journey of burgher from Basel – Reinhard Wasserhun (1586–1652) to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was part of his Grand Tour. R. Wasserhun stayed in the lands subordinate to the Polish-Lithuanian state for less than two months in 1614 (entries from 15 september to 13 november), where he visited at least Gdańsk, Malbork, Królewiec, Szczytno, Warszawa, Elbląg and Kraków and met with a total of 42 people. The itinerary of his stay in Poland and Prussia, as well as the circle of people he met during his journey, have been reconstructed (and statistically compiled) on the basis of the extensive album amicorum kept by R. Wasserhun during his journey. In addition to presenting his stay in the Polish state, the article aims to analyse R. Wasserhun’s journeys in the context of the self-creation of the Calvinist burgher in Poland, as well as to indicate the type of journey Wasserhun made during the „Polish” stage of his peregrination. How was this type diff erent from the type of journey he made in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The study of the above mentioned topics is also a contribution to a more in-depth source analysis of the entire album amicorum of R. Wasserhun, which is part of a vast social network of European intellectuals.

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