OD DYPLOMATYKI I EDYTORSTWA ŹRÓDEŁ KU SPECJALNOŚCI ARCHIWALNO-EDYTORSKIEJ. KONCEPCJE KSZTAŁCENIA ARCHIWISTÓW NA UNIWERSYTECIE WROCŁAWSKIM K. MALECZYŃSKIEGO I W. KORTY
FROM THE SUBJECT OF DIPLOMATICS AND PUBLISHING OF SOURCES TO THE ARCHIVAL-EDITING SPECIALIZATION: ARCHIVAL STUDIES AT THE WROCŁAW UNIVERSITY ACCORDING TO THE CONCEPTIONS OF PROFESSORS K. MALECZYŃSKY AND W. KORTA.

Summary/Abstract: Education of archivists at the Wrocław University had its beginning in the academic year 1960/1961 as the result of long-time endeavour of Professor Dr. Karol Maleczyński who took a professional preparation for archivists as a necessity. He himself had worked as an archivist in Lwów since 1925, at first in the Land Archives, then in the State Archives and after habilitation in 1929 he was connected to the Jan Kazimir University in Lwów. His experience from archival work and his own contribution to editing sources as in Kodeks Dyplomatyczny Ślaska caused professor Maleczyński for many years to strive for establishment of the Department of Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Science (Katedra Nauk Pomocniczych Historii i Archiwistyki) in Wrocław which was established as late as in 1960. He created a team of experts who did research in the field of diplomatics, later called a “Wrocław school”. Professor K. Maleczyński stressed the importance of archival education in Wrocław, owing to rich archival sources preserved in Lower Silesia, and the need to edit them and their use in research practice. After K. Maleczyński’s death in 1968, Senior Lecturer Dr. Waclaw Korta became the head of the Department and introduced a conception of changes of the subject of archival science onto archival-editing specialization, including more lessons and broadening the contents of such education. This innovative project which was accepted and put into practice was after a short time interrupted and finally concluded in July 1973 due to the decision of Ministry of Education and Public Instruction and it led to shortening of master’s study in history from five to four years.

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