Advanced search
Advanced search
Advanced search
Advanced search
Advanced search
Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Polska Akademia Nauk
The article aims to present the unknown origins of the first Polish higher education institution established in exile in the second half of the 1840s. The establishment of the so called Preparatory Institution, also known as the Montparnasse Higher School, coincided with a period of significant socio-political transformation in France, and was also part of the cultural and educational landscape and achievements of the Polish Great Emigration that arrived in France in the 1830s. The presentation of the grassroots educational initiative of a handful of Galician youth, and the response of the older diaspora established in Paris, constitute the main focus of this discussion. This discussion is accompanied by a description of the second wave of Polish emigration that arrived in France between 1846 and 1848, and the attitudes of the French public and the central authorities of the Second Republic towards it. An analysis of the actual educational needs of the entire Polish emigration in the new cultural and scientific reality of the late 1840s is also undertaken, with particular emphasis on the diplomatic efforts of the Hotel Lambert.
0080-4754 ; oai:rcin.org.pl:247873
Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN
Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025
36
https://rcin.org.pl/publication/284787
Pugacewicz, Iwona H.
Weber, Rolf (1930– )
Borejsza, Jerzy Wojciech (1935–2019)
Barzycka-Paździor, Agata
Kulczycka, Dorota