GÓRNOŚLĄSKIE GRONO HISTORYKÓW KOŚCIOŁA I ICH DOROBEK HISTORIOGRAFICZNY
Upper Silesian circle of Church historians and their historiographic output

Summary/Abstract: Upper Silesian church historians come from and generally concentrate on two scienti c communities: the Faculty of Theology of the University of Opole and the Faculty of Theology of the University of Silesia in Katowice. As they point out, their postwar heritage is common, as most of them took specialist studies at the Faculty of Theology of the catholic University of Lublin. Taking up the subject of the church history in Silesia the historians refer somehow to the famous Wroclaw’s historical school established at the Faculty of catholic Theology at the University. The characteristic of the two centers, both in Katowice and Opole, summarizes the most important scientific achievements of their representatives in the postwar peri- od. But this is not the full number of historians, but rather the characteristics of the most important representatives of both schools, mainly from the academic world.The activities of both universities are independent and we cannot talk about one Upper Silesian historical school. We should rather talk about one postwar Polish school of church historians whose representatives associated with Upper Silesia mainly devoted their historiographic output to the history of the local church. Broader activities at the universal church level are less present in their work as writers, but there is no shortage of topics relating to the universal church. It is rather the merit of individual historians and their activities on a wider level than just literary and educational action.

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