Nieporozumienia i konflikty personalne między Polakami i cudzoziemcami w środowisku naukowym Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego z lat 1803–1825

Abstract

Along with the creation of the Imperial Vilnius University in 1803, an extensive action ofrecruiting foreigners to professorial positions started on the initiative of the Prince Curator— Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. The professors-Poles, gathered around Jan Śniadecki,who opposed to this idea from the very beginning. This division into the Poles and foreignersbegan to speak for itself within the scientific community of the college from thenon. Not only ethnic, but political and economic differences were the reason of a mutualanimosity. This obviously had a negative influence on the efficiency of scientific activityof Vilnius University, for example, on publishing magazines whose editors were predominantlyrecruited exactly from the intellectual circle of Vilnius Alma Mater. These fightsbetween both clans lasted till about 1825 when their chief participants (G.E. Groddeck,J. Frank, J. Śniadecki or S.B. Jundziłł) left the stage.