Lektury galicyjskiego arystokraty doby międzypowstaniowej (literatura w życiu i edukacji Stanisława Tarnowskiego do 1863 roku)
Books by a Galician aristocrat of an inter‑uprising period (Literature in life and education of Stanisław Tarnowski until 1863)

Author(s): Grzegorz Nieć
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Tarnowski represents an old Polish aristocracy, possessing great culture whereas familyand social contacts cover all three partitions and emigration in difficult times (repressions, censorship,Germanization). Elites, including the intelligentsia being shaped, shaped at that time, gave a tone toa social and political life in Galicia in the period of autonomy. Correspondence and writings, as well asfragments of Stanisław Tarnowski’s book collections allow for reviewing a literary education of a youngGalician aristocrat, a literary historian and critic to be. He was brought up in a house with a big and richlibrary, his education was shaped by famous people of a book, among the closest of whom he got familiarizedwith Romantic works and was fascinated with plays by Schiller and Lessing at school. During hisjourney to Spain, Egypt, Holy Land and Constantinople he also traced the paths of reading. Books andliterary classes helped him to survive difficulties of an Austrian prison, in which he found himself aftera failure of a January uprising. Literary knowledge and culture acquired through years allowed him a fastand brilliant academic and political career, despite a delayed beginning for objective reasons.

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