Schwieriger Kulturtransfer. Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolofs Bemühungen um die Etablierung gelehrter Zeitschriften in Polen am Beispiel der Warschauer Bibliothek (1753–55)
Difficult cultural transfer. Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolof's endeavours to establish scholarly journals in Poland using the example of the Warsaw Library (1753-55)

Summary/Abstract: The Warschauer Bibliothek, the first scholarly journal in Warsaw, was founded by Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolof (1711–1778) – who originally hailed from Saxony. However its publication, which advocated the transfer of enlightened knowledge and education practices in Poland, resulted in a number of conflicts and tensions that led to it being quickly abandoned. The Warschauer Bibliothek was an unfamiliar medium for the Polish public in two distinct ways: firstly as a publication in itself, scholarly journals were not well-known phenomena in Polish society at that point; and secondly that Poles would be unfamiliar with the journal’s critical approach to knowledge and thinking. As a result, the formation of the Warschauer Bibliothek did not automatically lead to an adoption of enlightened ways of thinking and practices of transferring knowledge.

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