Urzędnicy nauki czy uczeni? Rektorzy Cesarskiego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Officials of Science or Scholars? Rectors of the Imperial University of Warsaw

Author(s): Alicja Kulecka
Subject(s): 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Imperial University of Warsaw; rectors of the Imperial University of Warsaw; Piotr Lavrovsky; Nikolaj Lavrovsky; Grigory Ulyanov; Yefim Karsky
Summary/Abstract: The scientific and educational Slavicisation, promoted by four out of eleven rectors at the university grounds, undoubtedly justified integration with the Empire in line with the programme of its “nationalization”, it was its political tool, but also a driver of the development of Slavic studies, the value of which in many aspects is not subject to depreciation. In this sense, some of the Warsaw rectors played the political role of promoters of integration interests of the state as officials delegated by it, but at the same time it is hard to deny them the titles of scholars of considerable scientific output. They were both officials and scholars, and the peculiar misfortune in the case of the Imperial University of Warsaw was that politics and science were deeply penetrating, serving one another.

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