„Gorączka rzymska” – udział Wiktora Czermaka w kampaniach naukowych Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie
„Roman Fever” – Wiktor Czermak’s Participation in the Scientific Campaigns of the Academy of Learning in Krakow

Summary/Abstract: This article is a contribution to the history of one of the most important initiatives of the Academy of Learning in Krakow, i.e. the Roman Expedition. The idea of organizing scientific trips to the eternal city was related to the opening of the Vatican Archive by Pope Leo XIII (1881). It was Stanisław Smolka (1854–1924), an outstanding medievalist, who was the originator and the first manager of the Expedition. Among his charges there was, Wiktor Czermak (1863–1913), a participant of the expeditionary campaigns of 1887–1888 and 1890–1891. This talented student of Ksawery Liske (1838–1891), who obtained his doctor’s degree at the Jagiellonian University (1887), had favorable conditions for further development of his scientific career in the town near Wawel. Thanks to the archival and library work undertaken on the River Tiber, he provided Polish science with important documents until the reign of Władysław IV and Jan Kazimierz. He combined his activity for the Academy with collecting materials for his own scientific studies. Foreign documents significantly influenced the critical image of the reign of the last Vasa. His stay in Rome and in other Italian cities contributed to the later successes of the Krakow historian.

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