Józef Kallenbach
Józef Henryk Kallenbach (24 November 1861[1] – 12 September 1929[2]) was a Polish historian of literature.
Biography
[edit]Kallenbach was born on 24 November 1861 in Kamenets-Podolsky, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine).[3][1] He was the son of Henryk Kallenbach, a publisher originally from Rheinfelden, Switzerland.[3] Kallenbach graduated from the IV Public Male Gymnasium Jan Długosz of old-classical type in Lwów. He then studied philology in Kraków, Leipzig and Paris, graduating from Kraków's Jagiellonian University in 1884.[3]
After researches in Basel, Rome, Paris and London, Kallenbach was appointed the first full professor of Polish and Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Fribourg in 1889;[3] he was the university's dean from 1894 to 1895.[3] In 1904, Kallenbach moved to Warsaw, where he became director of the library of the Krasiński family estate.[3] He was appointed professor of Polish literary history at the University of Lwów in 1904, at the University of Warsaw in 1915, and finally at the Jagiellonian University in 1920.[3] Kallenbach was also a member of the Akademia Umiejętności, and a director of the Czartoryski Museum and Library in Kraków.
Kallenbach lectured about Polish pre-partitions literature and romanticism. During his time in Lwów he examined the works of the Three Bards of Polish literature: Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasiński and Juliusz Słowacki. Some of his most notable works refer to the literature of Old Poland. Kallenbach's French-language works include Les humanistes polonais (1891) and Sigismond Krasiński et Henry Reeve d'après leur correspondance (1902).[3] Kallenbach died in Kraków on 12 September 1929, aged 68.[3] He was buried in Lychakivskiy Cemetery, as he considered himself connected to Lwów.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Zięba-Dąbrowska, Agnieszka (2024). "Profesor Józef Kallenbach (1861–1929) jako badacz twórczości wieszczów romantyzmu". Romantyczność i filologia. Wileńskie kręgi Adama Mickiewicza. Studia. Przełomy/Pogranicza: Studia Literackie (in Polish). Vol. 49. Białystok–Vilnius: Wydawnictwo Prymat. pp. 301–313. ISBN 978-83-7657-509-4.
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- 1861 births
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- People from Kamianets-Podilskyi
- People from Kamenets-Podolsky Uyezd
- Polish people of Swiss descent
- Polish male writers
- 19th-century Polish historians
- 20th-century Polish historians
- Jagiellonian University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Fribourg
- Academic staff of the University of Lviv
- Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
- Rectors of the Jagiellonian University
- Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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- Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery
- 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire