Quelques pages de l’histoire des études romanes et italiennes à Varsovie. La correspondance de Mieczysław Brahmer et de Giovanni Maver (1927–1939)
Several Pages from the History of the Faculties of Romance and Italian Studies in Warsaw. The Correspondence between Mieczysław Brahmer and Giovanni Maver

Author(s): Teresa Jaroszewska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Mieczysław Brahmer; Giovanni Maver; history of Polish Romance studies; history of Polish Italian studies; history of Italian Polish studies; University of Warsaw (1933–1939)
Summary/Abstract: M. Brahmer, one of the greatest figures of Romance studies in the 20th century Poland, in 1937 moved from Cracow to Warsaw to assume the post of the head of the Seminar of Italian literature and after the war for over 20 years he ran Warsaw’s faculty of Romance studies. He conducted an important correspondence with G. Maver, a pioneer of the Italian Slavic Studies and the director of the first Chair of Polish Studies in the West at the La Sapienza University in Rome where Brahmer was lecturing in Polish language and literature for six years. Their letters provide a valuable source material on the history of Polish Romance and Italian studies and the conditions in which this generation of scholars had to work, as well as give a testimony of their friendship. The article discusses Brahmer’s pre-war letters, describing i. a. the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the faculty of Italian studies in Warsaw.

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