Litwini na Uniwersytecie Dorpackim (Juriewskim) do 1918 roku i ich dalsze losy
Lithuanians at the University of Dorpat (Yuriev) until 1918 and their later fortunes

Biographical dictionary

Author(s): Grzegorz Błaszczyk
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Education, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Higher Education , History of Education, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: University of Dorpat; Dorpat; Lithuania; university; Poles at the University of Dorpat; Lithuanians at the University of Dorpat
Summary/Abstract: The book, which is a biographical dictionary, is devoted to students of Lithuanian origin from the University of Dorpat in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The basic problem is that of separating Poles from Lithuanians in the period from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. An additional problem is the ambiguity of the term "Lithuanian" at that time. For there were two different concepts: Historical Lithuanian and Ethnic Lithuanian. These differ in many respects, mainly social, territorial, historical, ethnic. In the approach used by the author of this book, historical Lithuanians included such famous people as Stanislaw Cat Mackiewicz, his brother Józef Mackiewicz, Melchior Wańkowicz, Czesław Miłosz or Józef Piłsudski, alongside many others. In terms of ethnicity, all these mentioned were not of Polish but of Lithuanian or Ruthenian origin. The individuals considered themselves Lithuanians in a historical sense, but ultimately chose a Polish national consciousness. In this publication, both notions – Pole and Lithuanian – are used in a narrow sense, limited only to a person's national consciousness. Therefore, a Pole or a Lithuanian is a person who consciously and publicly expressed his or her national consciousness, whether Polish or Lithuanian. Such a situation was encountered only from the very end of the 19th century until Yuriev University closed in 1918.

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