Zygmunt Gloger (3November 184516August 1910) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the
Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popular Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society (
PTTK).
[Zygmunt Gloger - Starożytnik z Jeżewa.](_blank)
Internet Archive.
Life
He was a son of engineer and Michalina née Wojno.
Under the professional influence of historians and geographers
Julian Bartoszewicz as well as
Józef Ignacy Krasicki, and later
Wincenty Pol
Wincenty Pol (; 20 April 1807 – 2 December 1872) was a Polish poet and geographer.
Life
Pol was born in Lublin (then in Galicia), to Franz Pohl (or Poll), a German in the Austrian service, and his wife Eleonora Longchamps de Berier, from a ...
and
Oskar Kolberg, Gloger voyaged through Poland and Lithuania under the
foreign Partitions, and corresponded with many European scholars.
Founder of ''
Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze'' (the Sightseeing Society, precursor of modern
PTTK), in his will Gloger gave his impressive collection to that organization as well as to the ''Towarzystwo Ethnograficzne'' (the Ethnographic Society), ''Towarzystwo Bibliotek Publicznych w Warszawie'' (Public Libraries Society) and Museum of Industry and Agriculture.
His life's work was the ''Encyklopedia staropolska ilustrowana'' (1900-1903), still considered a useful and important book about culture of
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...
. His other works include ''Obchody weselne'' (1869), ''Pieśni ludu'' (1892), ''Księga rzeczy polskich'' (1896), ''Rok polski w życiu, tradycji i pieśni'' (1900).
[Dr Marek Adamiec (2003), ]
Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski by Zygmunt Gloger.
' Uniwersytet Gdański, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Gdańsk.
Works
*
"Encyklopedia staropolska" Zygmunt Gloger, 1900-1903, online
"Dolinami rzek. Opisy podróży wzdłuż Niemna, Wisły, Bugu i Biebrzy"Zygmunt Gloger, 1903, online
See also
*
List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish people, Polish or Polish language, Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Physics
*Miedziak Antal
* Czesław Białobrzesk ...
References
Further reading
* Józefowicz, Anna. 2019. “Zygmunt Gloger’s "Baśnie I powieści" ("Fairy Tales and Stories") – Composition, Characters, Axiology”. In: ''Bibliotekarz Podlaski'' 43 (2), 389-410. https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.27.
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1845 births
1910 deaths
People from Wysokie Mazowieckie County
Polish nobility
19th-century Polish historians
Writers from Congress Poland
19th-century historians from the Russian Empire
Polish male non-fiction writers
Burials at Powązki Cemetery