Romantyczne tradycje „państwa burszowskiego” w Dorpacie nad Embachem

Abstract

Academic education became an essential component of the Romantic education within the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian state and was sought even by the less wealthy social classes already in the first half of the nineteenth century. The events of 1830 and the consequent closure of the leading universities in Vilnius and Warsaw caused the youth from these areas to look more and more often towards the University of Tartu, which was established in 1632. The Athens on the Embach River (Emajogi) attracted not only talented Livonians (e.g., Gustaw Ma ˜ nteuffel, Bolesław Limanowski, Michał Plater) but also those who used to study in Vilnius. The article attempts to examine the role that traditions carried over from Vilnius played in the university life and how the generations of Tartu students supported the Romantic spiritual ideals.