Ks. Jakub Falkowski – założyciel Instytutu Głuchoniemych w Warszawie, przyjaciel o. Jana Podgórskiego, prekursor nowoczesnego zarządzania i przywództwa
Fr Jakub Falkowski – founder of the Institute of Deaf and Dumb in Warsaw, friend of Fr Jan Podgórski, precursor of modern management and leadership

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the activities of Fr Jakub Falkowski – founder of the Institute of the Deaf and Dumb (1817) in Warsaw, the precursor of modern management and leadership and his links with the Redemptorist Congregation in Piotrkowice. Banished from Warsaw, they founded a cryptocloister in 1824 in the estate of Stanisław Tarnowski and Laura Tarnowska, née Potocka, which was closed after the November Uprising. Fr Jan Podgórski was a good friend of Fr Falkowski and used to come with deaf children for summer holidays to Piotrkowice. The article discusses a note written by Fr Bernard Łubieński based on the description of one of the pupils of the Piotrkowice school, which is in the archival collection of the Warsaw Province of the Redemptorists. Additionally, Falkowski’s relationship with the Redemptorists seems to be confirmed by the will of Fr Karol Jestershein and a bequest he made to the Institute of the Deaf. The article talks about the above-mentioned sources, their provenance against the background of Fr Falkowski’s activities. It also poses hypotheses how and through whom Falkowski could get acquainted with the Redemptorists. It is an attempt to reconstruct the mutual contacts and connections of the clergy with influential spheres of the Kingdom of Poland.

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