Niemieckie inspiracje w historiografii polskiej przełomu XIX i XX wieku (na przykładzie Wacława Sobieskiego i Szymona Askenazego)
German inspirations in Polish historiography at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the case of Wacław Sobieski and Szymon Askenazy

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the impact that German models of historical writing had on the development of Polish historiography in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century to 1918. To investigate this impact, the author analyses the work of two distinguished Polish historians, Szymon Askenazy and Wacław Sobieski, whom she links with what she defines as the “modernist mutation” and whom, according to Jerzy Maternicki, may be included among the generation of Polish neoromantics. The author focuses both on the historians’ theoretical enunciations and on their research practice, and discusses their most important works published before 1918.

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