Michał Bobrzyński

Polish historian

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Born:: Sept. 30, 1849, Kraków, Pol., Austrian Empire

Died:: July 3, 1935, Poznań, Pol. (aged 85)

Subjects Of Study:: Poland

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Michał Bobrzyński (born Sept. 30, 1849, Kraków, Pol., Austrian Empire—died July 3, 1935, Poznań, Pol.) was a Polish historian and Conservative politician who maintained that the weakening of the central government had been the main cause of the 18th-century partitions of Poland and, on that basis, inaugurated a reappraisal of Poland’s history. Professor of legal history at the University of Kraków (1877), Bobrzyński studied (1873–85) the social history of medieval Poland, published his politically influential Dzieje Polski (“History of Poland”) in 1879, and became the chief exponent of the “pessimistic” (or Kraków) school of Polish historiography, which sharply criticized Poland’s ...(100 of 131 words)

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