{"id":215,"date":"2023-11-22T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2023-11-22T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:40:30","slug":"aleksander-bruckner-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/?page_id=215&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"In Search of the Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aleksander Br\u00fcckner was one of the greatest and most original Polish scholars of Slavonic languages and historians of Polish literature, language and culture. He was considered the <em>last polyhistor<\/em>, or scholar of multiple disciplines, and his output of more than 1,500 publications in several languages is one of the most extensive achievements in the humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Br\u00fcckner was born on January 29, 1856 in Ternopil (then in the Austrian Empire, now Ukraine), although he was emotionally attached to the nearby city of Berezhany, where his grandfather was mayor for many years. The Br\u00fcckner family probably came to Poland from Austria in the eighteenth century and quickly became Polonised, settling in the multicultural environs of Lviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On leaving his <em>Gymnasium<\/em> (grammar school) in 1872, Br\u00fcckner went to study Philology at the University of Lviv. Four years later he completed his doctorate in Vienna under Franz Miklosich and, in 1878, after further studies in Berlin and Leipzig, his post-doctoral <em>Habilitation<\/em>. He began working at the University of Lviv, but soon there were calls for him to take up the chair of Slavonic Languages and Literatures in Berlin. He was appointed to this position in 1880 and worked at the University of Berlin for the next 40 years, until his retirement. He aroused great admiration with his erudition, energy, polemical zeal and productivity. His scholarly proposals were brilliant and bold, sometimes controversial and often criticised and corrected by the scholar himself years later. He remained in Berlin until his death on May 24, 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aleksander Br\u00fcckner&#8217;s vast body of work includes not only the first critical editions of his greatest discoveries, including the oldest surviving texts in Polish, but also his history of Polish culture (<em>Dzieje kultury polskiej<\/em>), his still largely up-to-date study of Slavonic mythology (<em>Mitologia s\u0142owia\u0144ska<\/em>), his unusual etymological dictionary of Polish with many digressions (<em>S\u0142ownik etymologiczny j\u0119zyka polskiego<\/em>), a monumental encyclopaedia of Old Poland (<em>Encyklopedia staropolska<\/em>), dozens of critical editions of works, works of popular science and over a thousand academic articles and essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksander Br\u00fcckner was one of the greatest and most original Polish scholars of Slavonic languages and historians of Polish literature, language and culture. He was considered the last polyhistor, or scholar of multiple disciplines, and his output of more than 1,500 publications in several languages is one of the most extensive achievements in the humanities. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/?page_id=215&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link\">Czytaj dalej<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201eIn Search of the Middle Ages\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-215","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruckner.bn.org.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}