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Aleksander Jan Rodkiewicz, The First Polish University of Technology, 1825–1831. Monographs on Modern History. Vol. VI [1904]
Title: The First Polish University of Technology, 1825–1831 (Monographs on Modern History, Vol. VI).
Author: Aleksander Jan Rodkiewicz [engineer, author of the first monograph on the history of the Preparatory School for the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw].
Series editor and preface: Szymon Askenazy.
Publisher: Kraków–Warsaw, printed by W. L. Anczyc and Company. Funded by the Dr. Józef Mianowski Fund for Assistance to Persons Working in the Field of Science.
Year of publication: 1904.
Format: 23 cm.
Volume: [2], XXI, 267, [1] pp.
Binding: Paperback.
Volume VI of the series “Monographs on Modern History” presents the first monograph on the Preparatory School for the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw—the direct predecessor of today’s Warsaw University of Technology. Stanisław Staszic, president of the Polytechnic Council, had long dreamed of such an institution. It opened on January 4, 1826, at the Kazimierzowski Palace, and the mathematician Kajetan Garbiński, a graduate of the École Polytechnique in Paris, became its first director. The school offered both a lower and an upper course of study. The upper course included departments of civil engineering and architecture, crafts and chemistry, technical mechanics, and commerce. The school’s operations were interrupted by the November Uprising, in which its students fought, and a tsarist decree dated November 19, 1831, closed it permanently. Rodkiewicz based his lecture on manuscript sources from Warsaw archives, the Czartoryski Archive in Kraków, and private collections. Szymon Askenazy wrote an extensive preface devoted to the era of the Congress Kingdom.
Szymon Askenazy (1865–1935), the series’ founder and editor, was born in Zawichost. He studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw and history in Göttingen under Max Lehmann, where he earned his doctorate in 1894. From 1902 to 1919, he was a professor at the University of Lviv, where he mentored a group of historians known as the Askenazy School. From 1909, he was a member of the Academy of Learning. His works include a monograph on Prince Józef Poniatowski and the book *Napoleon and Poland*. From 1920 to 1923, he served as Poland’s first representative to the League of Nations.
Provenance: a piece without any ownership marks, with the pages uncut—the volume has never been read.
This is an uncut piece in its original published condition—a classic work on the origins of Polish technical university studies, with a foreword by Askenazy. A must-have for graduates and enthusiasts of the Warsaw University of Technology, researchers of the history of education and technical sciences, and historians of the Congress Kingdom.
Uncut piece, solid block, clean paper, no stains or signs of use. The paper paperback cover is in perfect condition.
Catalog ID: 13950x1-23-A-X
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Title: The First Polish University of Technology, 1825–1831 (Monographs on Modern History, Vol. VI).
Author: Aleksander Jan Rodkiewicz [engineer, author of the first monograph on the history of the Preparatory School for the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw].
Series editor and preface: Szymon Askenazy.
Publisher: Kraków–Warsaw, printed by W. L. Anczyc and Company. Funded by the Dr. Józef Mianowski Fund for Assistance to Persons Working in the Field of Science.
Year of publication: 1904.
Format: 23 cm.
Volume: [2], XXI, 267, [1] pp.
Binding: Paperback.
Volume VI of the series “Monographs on Modern History” presents the first monograph on the Preparatory School for the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw—the direct predecessor of today’s Warsaw University of Technology. Stanisław Staszic, president of the Polytechnic Council, had long dreamed of such an institution. It opened on January 4, 1826, at the Kazimierzowski Palace, and the mathematician Kajetan Garbiński, a graduate of the École Polytechnique in Paris, became its first director. The school offered both a lower and an upper course of study. The upper course included departments of civil engineering and architecture, crafts and chemistry, technical mechanics, and commerce. The school’s operations were interrupted by the November Uprising, in which its students fought, and a tsarist decree dated November 19, 1831, closed it permanently. Rodkiewicz based his lecture on manuscript sources from Warsaw archives, the Czartoryski Archive in Kraków, and private collections. Szymon Askenazy wrote an extensive preface devoted to the era of the Congress Kingdom.
Szymon Askenazy (1865–1935), the series’ founder and editor, was born in Zawichost. He studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw and history in Göttingen under Max Lehmann, where he earned his doctorate in 1894. From 1902 to 1919, he was a professor at the University of Lviv, where he mentored a group of historians known as the Askenazy School. From 1909, he was a member of the Academy of Learning. His works include a monograph on Prince Józef Poniatowski and the book *Napoleon and Poland*. From 1920 to 1923, he served as Poland’s first representative to the League of Nations.
Provenance: a piece without any ownership marks, with the pages uncut—the volume has never been read.
This is an uncut piece in its original published condition—a classic work on the origins of Polish technical university studies, with a foreword by Askenazy. A must-have for graduates and enthusiasts of the Warsaw University of Technology, researchers of the history of education and technical sciences, and historians of the Congress Kingdom.
Uncut piece, solid block, clean paper, no stains or signs of use. The paper paperback cover is in perfect condition.
Catalog ID: 13950x1-23-A-X
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