Польськi видання в іменних фондах бібліотеки Одеського нацiонального унiверситету імені І. І. Мечникова

Abstract

The Scientific Library of the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University tracks its history from the book collection of the Richelieu Lyceum, which was found in 1817. Formation of the lyceum’s library collections lasted throughout the entire period of this institution’s existence. All transformations of the library were associated with the reform of the institution itself. There are several ways in which the library of the Richelieu Lyceum was replenished: the centralized purchase of educational literature at the expense of the annual financing, „replaced” literature (publications from the Vilna Medical and Surgical Academy), and gifts from organizations and individuals. One of the most important book procurements of Novorossiysk University was a valuable collection of old printed publications from the library of the Polish lawyer and historian Senator Romuald Hube (1803–1890), which contained mostly legal texts, ranging from the oldest sources of law, comments to reprints of the codes performed in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and special studies. It was the library of the famous Polish slavist, ethnographer and traveler Professor Andrzej Franciszek Kucharski. At the end of the 19th century the library received a fine private book collection of Count O. G. Stroganov and the library of the Vorontsov family in Odessa.