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Aleksander Brückner’s Autographs in the Collection of the Stefanyk National Science Library
Abstract
The problem of processing and publishing the epistolary heritage of Aleksander Brückner, one of the founders of Slavic Studies in Europe, is one of the key tasks on the way to creating a comprehensive intellectual biography of the historian of culture. The article analyses several letters by A. Brückner, which are stored in the manuscript collections of the Stefanyk National Science Library and which were not previously known to the academic community. These epistolary materials illustrate two completely different areas of interest of the Berlin slavicist – his communication with colleagues and relations with prominent representatives of the artistic intelligentsia.
The letter from Brückner to the Lviv poet Maryla Wolska, which is a rare example of illustrating the literary preferences of the Polish-German slavist, can be considered a unique source. The article follows the entire path of Brückner's reception of Wolska's work, from complimentary remarks in the text of the letter to an extensive review in an influential Lviv newspaper. Two letters from Aleksander Brückner to ethnographer Jan Karłowicz demonstrate the joint efforts of the two scholars in the field of studying the folklore heritage of the Baltic peoples, actualising the issue of the Kashubians' cultural separateness and the necessity of in-depth study of literary heritage in the Kashubian language, and their popularisation.
The publication represents an intermediate stage in the study of the epistolary heritage of Aleksander Brückner, which is stored in the manuscript collections of the Stefanyk National Science Library. The author makes an attempt to physically describe the documents, identify the date and place of their writing, analyse their content, and include these epistolary sources in the general context of the intellectual biography of Aleksander Brückner and, partially, Jan Karłowicz and Maryla Wolska. The author emphasises the wide prospects for further development of the topic, which consists in publishing Brückner’s letters with the relevant scientific commentary within the framework of more general thematic collections of letters by representatives of European scientific and artistic intelligentsia who were in some way connected with the Ukrainian lands.
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Aleksander Brückner, Jan Karłowicz, Maryla Wolska, epistolary sources, ego-documents, intercultural dialogue, scientific communicationDetails
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