Polski szlachcic w Ameryce. Obraz Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki Północnej w świetle pamiętników Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza. Próba naszkicowania problemu
Journal Title: Zapiski Historyczne. Poświęcone Historii Pomorza i Krajów Bałtyckich - Year 2015, Vol 80, Issue 3
Abstract
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758-1841) was a poet, playwright, novelist, historian, diarist, journalist, translator and politician. He circulated in culturally and politically significant entourages such as the court of the Czartoryski family and King Stanisław August Poniatowski, the societies of pre-revolutionary France; he was an adjutant and a personal secretary of Tadeusz Kościuszko; he was also acquainted with George Washington. During his life he carried out many long trips to various European countries; he lived in the USA for over 8 years. Fortunately for his descendants, he wrote Pamiętniki czasów moich [English: Memoirs of my times] which, along with Podróże po Ameryce 1797-1807 [English: Travels throughout America 1797-1807], constitute a basic source for this article. His diary is the first extensive description of the USA from the turn of the 18th and the 19th centuries based on the personal observations of the author. A closer analysis of this rich source material allows us to reconstruct the outlines of the image of the new state in America created in the mind of this outstanding representative of Polish culture. The source research conducted here is of an exploratory nature. The work includes quotations from the writer’s diary following the rule of pars pro toto. As a result, the work constitutes merely an outline of the problem included in the title; it requires further research to be subsequently presented in a monograph, which would take into account all the cultural background of the Polish ideas concerning the USA in the 18th-19th centuries.
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Kazimierz Maliszewski
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