Polsko-ukraińskie spotkania naukowe. Biblioteka ossolińska jako miejsce kształtowania się wielonarodowościowego środowiska twórczego Lwowa przełomu XIX i XX wieku
Polish-Ukrainian Scientific Meetings. The Ossolineum Library as a Place for the Formation of Multinational Creative Environment in Lviv at the turn of the 19th and 20th Century

Author(s): Vira Neszew
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Polish-Ukrainian relationships; Lviv; Ossolineum Library; University of Lviv; cultural community
Summary/Abstract: In Galician Lviv at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, two most numerous nations living there, the Poles and the Ukrainians, concentrated on the development of their own science and culture. The key role was played by scientific and cultural institutions such as the University of Lviv, different associations, editorial offices, a theatre and the Ossolineum Library, founded by Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński at the beginning of the 19th century. This latter institution became (in political realities of that time) a place where, on the one hand, Polish science developed, and, on the other, Ukrainian culture was fostered. The activities undertaken by the Lviv Ossolineum at the turn of the century, confirm Polish-Ukrainian cultural community at the time, which stemmed not only from the creative environment common for both nations in the same city. The Ossolineum Library was a place, where the Poles and the Ukrainians contributed to the development of culture in multinational Lviv.

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