The Genesis and Origins of the Activity of Poznan Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences. In the 150th Anniversary of Its Foundation

Abstract

The article presented recalls the 150th anniversary of foundation of Poznan Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences (Pol. abbr. PTPN). In the time of national enslavement, it was the most important cultural and scholarly institution for the residents of the Prussian partition. It was also a substitute of a university, which the inhabitants of Poznan demanded so much. PTPN was a carrier of university ideas advocated by the most prominent people of Great Poland of that period: count Tytus Dzialynski, archbishop Leon Przyluski, the social activists: August Cieszkowski and Karol Libelt.