THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION ARCHIVES IN NEW YORK – THE FORGOTTEN TREASURY NOT ONLY TO THE HISTORY OF POLISH SCIENCE
Journal Title: Studia Historiae Scientiarum - Year 2013, Vol 12, Issue
Abstract
The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York has several chapters in the main cities in the United States of America as well as in Warsaw. It was founded in 1925 by Steven Mizwa (professor of economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa) with the cooperation of American intellectuals and businessmen (some of Polish origins), and from the very beginning it was thought as the American Center of Polish Culture – to build the cultural bridges between the U.S. and Poland. It is mainly famous for its educational and exchange programmes, addressed not only to the students but also to the scholars. What is more, every single year the KF organises the piano competitions, annual balls, various concerts, lectures and many other events. The main building holds the pictures of Polish masters such as: Jan Matejko, Wojciech Kossak, Jacek Malczewski. Unfortunately, only a few persons know about the existing of the Kosciuszko Foundation Archives. The main aim of this paper is to give the general view on the KF records. The archives’ inventory has never been published or accessible on line, and it is not so easy to get through. That is why the collection is rather unknown. Nevertheless, worth visiting to explore her precious materials. It hides such treasures as letters from prominent politicians (Jan Kucharzewski, Aleksander Skrzyński, Tytus Filipowicz), various eminent Polish scholars such as: Henryk Arctowski, Roman Dyboski, Ludwik Ehrlich, Stanisław Kot, Adam Krzyżanowski, Wacław Lednicki, Julian Makarewicz, Eugeniusz Romer and many professors of American universities (Columbia, Harvard, Notre-Dame, Berkeley). What is more, the collection can be used to do the research on Polonia organizations, students exchange programmes (since 1925 onwards) and lots of examples of cooperation between Poland and the U.S. before and after World War 2. The list of most important people whose papers are the part of the Kosciuszko Foundation Archives is given as Appendix.
Authors and Affiliations
Tomasz PUDŁOCKI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP105098
- DOI -
- Views 57
- Downloads 0
Sprawozdanie Komisji Historii Nauki PAU w roku 2016/2017
The report discusses the activities of the Commission on the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016/2017. It presents the lists of: scientific meeting, conferences, and new publications.
FORGOTTEN MAPS OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL DISTRICTS OF THE POLISH KINGDOM AND THEIR AUTHOR – MAKSYMILIAN STRASZ
The establishment of the Kingdom of Poland (in 1815, within the framework of Empire of Russia) and the development of government-run mining and metallurgy gave a chance of employment to many well-educated specialists in...
MARK ILIJCH NEUSTADT, AN OUTSTANDING PALYNOLOGIST AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHER, RESEARCHER OF PEATLANDS AND LAKES OF EURASIA (1903–1985)
Mark Neustadt was born in 1903 in Nevel, in the vicinity of Vitebsk. He studied geobotany at the Moscow State University. In the years 1925–1948, he worked at the Central Peat Bog Experimental Station in Moscow. His init...
Bibliografia prac filologa, prozaika oraz historyka farmacji Zbigniewa Beli (1949–2018)
Opracowanie przedstawia spis publikacji Zbigniewa Beli (1949–2018), filologa, prozaika oraz historyka farmacji. The bibliography presents the list of publications by Zbigniew Bela (1949–2018), a philologist, prosaist, a...
Życie i działalność naukowa Tadeusza Banachiewicza
Niniejszy artykuł jest syntetyczną biografią Tadeusza Banachiewicza (1882–1954), uwzględniającą jego najważniejsze wyniki naukowe. Jego celem jest przedstawienie zagranicznemu Czytelnikowi osiągnięć tego polskiego naukow...