Section for the Historical-Geographical Dictionary of Greater Poland
Head: Professor Tomasz Jurek
Emeriti:
Professor Antoni Gąsiorowski
The section was headed for many years by Professor Izabela Skierska, who died on 2 April 2014.
On 8 May 2019 died Doctor Grażyna Rutkowska, a long-time co-author of the Dictionary.
Contact: S. Mielżyńskiego 27/29, 61-725 Poznań
phone/fax: 061 848 09 17
e-mail: shg-poznan@ihpan.edu.pl
The section working in Poznań consists of four researchers whose primary task is to prepare entries for the Dictionary. In addition, all members of the section pursue their own research. Professor Tomasz Jurek works on the history of Silesia and Greater Poland, the political history of the fragmentation period and the unification of the state at the turn of the 14th century, the early history of Christianity in the Polish lands, and auxiliary disciplines of history (with a particular interest in diplomatics and genealogy). Dr Paweł Dembiński studies late medieval church chapters, especially the chapter of Poznań Cathedral. Dr Adam Kozak is interested in medieval municipal and ecclesiastical records and their edition; he is currently preparing a printed edition of the judicial records drafted by the vicar general of Gniezno, Sandivogius of Czechel (1449–1453). Mr Michał Bartoszak is interested in the history of the settlement and the genealogy of the nobility in Greater Poland, as well as the culture of the book (especially in the circle of the clergy of the 16th and 17th centuries).
The section has carried out a number of editorial projects. The volumes produced by the team consisting of Antoni Gąsiorowski, Tomasz Jurek, and Izabela Skierska include:
1. Metryka Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego z lat 1400–1508. Biblioteka Jagiellońska rkp. 258 [The Jagiellonian University Metrica for the years 1400–1508. Manuscript 258 of the Jagiellonian Library], vol. 1: Text (LXII + 650 pp. + CD with scans of the manuscript), vol. 2: Indices (768 pp.), Kraków, 2004;
2. Metryka czyli album Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego z lat 1509–1551. Biblioteka Jagiellońska rkp. 259 [The Jagiellonian University Metrica or Album for the years 1509–1551. Manuscript 259 of the Jagiellonian Library], Warszawa, 2010, LVIII + 678 pp. (text and indices) + CD with scans of the manuscript;
3. Księga ławnicza Szamotuł [Liber Scabinorum Civitatis Schamotuli] z lat 1567–1579. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. boruss. fol. 1002, Szamotuły, 2010, 300 pp. + CD with scans of the manuscript;
4. Najstarsza księga promocji Wydziału Sztuk Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego z lat 1402–1541 [The oldest graduation book of the Faculty of Arts of Cracow University for the years 1402–1541], Warszawa, 2011, 420 pp.
An edition of the 15th-century cartulary of the College of Poznań Cathedral Vicars (known as Iura vicariorum) is currently in preparation.
