Published : 2025-04-02

The Phase of Crisis and Doubts. Zygmunt Gloger towards the Lithuanian Question (1905–1910)

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The article is devoted to the attitude to the ethnic emancipation of Lithuanians in the writings of Zygmunt Gloger (1845–1910), a Polish publicist, writer, historian, archaeologist, and folklorist. Until 1904, he was interested in the Lithuanian national movement, but he did not expose the topic. He took the position that the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth existed neutrally within the pre-partition borders as a community of a conquered but not enslaved nation. He understood the concept of the nation politically, in Jagiellonian terms. The revolution of 1905, independence sentiments in Polish lands, the radicalism of the Lithuanian, anti-Polish newspaper “Vilniaus Zhinios,” the convening of the Grand Sejm of Vilnius by Lithuanians in 1905 – all this caused him to become involved in the dispute over the identity of the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Gloger did not deny the “ethnographic” Lithuanians the right to an independent path of cultural development, but he counted on their remaining in the community of the future republic, which would more effectively resist Russia and Germany. He conducted his polemics in a balanced way, using the rhetoric of persuasion and patience.

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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Crown, Zygmunt Gloger, Lithuanian Issue



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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