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In the years 1997–2021, the Department of the History of Education and Culture of the Jagiellonian University was headed by the professors Julian Dybiec, Andrzej Banach and Krzysztof Stopka. Despite the fact that it was structurally part of the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, its employees also held classes in other university faculties, including the Institute of Pedagogy, Department of Computational Linguistics at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University, and were in charge of the Faculty of History, Archives of the Jagiellonian University and the Museum of the Jagiellonian University. The scientific research of the team oscillated around the history of the Jagiellonian University; science, education and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day; the history of Krakow, Galicia and Poland; but also the intellectual ties of Poland with the Anglo-Saxon countries; the history of Jews and of the Roman and Greek Catholic Church; history didactics – especially in the history of the Armenians. Apart from the department heads, full-time employees in the discussed period included: Grzegorz Chomicki, Tomasz Pudłocki, Krystyna Samsonowska, Maria Stinia, and Wiktor Szymborski.

Artykuł traktuje o zainteresowaniach naukowych Renaty Dutkowej dotyczących dziejów oświaty, nauki i kultury Galicji. Pomimo że uczona nie pozostawiła po sobie rozległego dorobku naukowego, to przynajmniej kilka jej studiów wytrzymało próbę czasu. Warto podkreślić przede wszystkim jej pionierskie badania nad szkolnictwem dla dziewcząt w Krakowie, zależnością pomiędzy Uniwersytetem Jagiellońskim a oświatą na poziomie średnim w XIX w. oraz wkład w pokazywanie mechanizmów polityki oświatowej w pierwszych latach autonomii. The paper presents the academic interests of Professor Renata Dutkowa concerned with the history of education, learning and culture of Galicia. Although the scholar had not left extensive academic output, at least a few of her studies have stood the test of time. It is worth emphasizing above all her pioneering research on girls’ education in Cracow, relations between the Jagiellonian University and secondary education in the 19th century, and her contribution to showing the mechanisms of educational policies in the first years of the autonomy.

This chapter introduces the idea of the whole volume, which aims to present a multilayered analysis of the situation in Central Europe after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The editors have invited authors from over a dozen academic institutions to answer the question, to what extent the solutions applied in the Habsburg Monarchy were still practiced in the newly created nation states and to what extent these new political organisms went their own ways. Therefore, the aim of this book is to have a closer look at Central Europe with its multiple problems typical of that region after 1918 (organizing the post-imperial space, a new political discourse and attempts to create new national memories, the role of national minorities, solving social problems and verbal and physical violence expressed in public space). Particular articles concern post-1918 Central Europe on the local, state and international levels, which makes this publication quite a comprehensive look at this sub-region between 1918 and 1923.

The aim of this article is to take a closer look at school communities in the Polish‑Ukrainian borderland in the 1918/1919 school year. Their members, particularly the headteachers, previously focused on teaching the students obedience and loyalty towards the emperor in Vienna, had to completely redefine their roles in order to find themselves in the new reality in the late autumn of 1918. Moreover, another year of the turmoil of war, countless teachers and students in the army, enormous economic problems, exacerbated by the fights for dominance on the disputed territory, forced the headteachers to deal with matters as they arose, and the decisions they made did not always work in practice. What cast a shadow over secondary school activity apart from the Polish‑Ukrainian war was also Polish‑Jewish relations.

This chapter discusses the activity of a group of Polish neophilologists (German, English and Romance languages specialists) and their peculiar “suspension” between faithfulness to their research and service for the Polish state, which had only just regained independence in 1918. Poland’s priority was defending the state borders and having them internationally recognized, which did not happen until 1923. Two alliances, with France and Romania, both formed in 1921, were supposed to help achieve that. Due to many post-war difficulties (of military, economic, political and social nature), Poland needed specialists, whose work would support Polish diplomats. Because of the small university network in Poland and merely over a dozen neophilology departments, each Western language specialist was worth his weight in gold. However, not all of them were able to keep the balance between serving science and serving their country, which can be seen for instance in the biography of a Romance languages specialist, Stanisław Stroński.

Autorzy w rozważaniach wstępnych, wprowadzających do kolejnego tomu wydanego w ramach serii „W służbie nauki” pokazują postać Renaty Dutkowej na tle innych uczonych, których biografie i dokonania stały się pretekstem do przypomnienia ich sylwetek. Według przyjętej od wielu lat formuły Archiwum Nauki PAN i PAU stara się w pierwszej kolejności ukazywać postaci, których spuścizny znajdują się w jego zasobie – w gmachu Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności organizowana jest sesja naukowa poświęcona danej osobie, a w murach Archiwum – wystawa biograficzna n their introductory reflection at the beginning of the next volume published as part of the “In the Service of Learning” series, the authors present Renata Dutkowa against other scholars whose profiles have been commemorated due to their biographies and accomplishments. In compliance with a long-time custom, the Archive of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences has attempted to show above all those people whose legacies are included in its fonds; an academic session devoted to a given person is organized in the building of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a biographic exhibition at the Archive.