W kręgu wielkich osobowości wileńskich badań filologicznych. Leona Borowskiego wspomnienie o Euzebiuszu Słowackim

Abstract

The subject of this article is Leon Borowski’s press recollection of his direct predecessor in the Department of Poetry and Rhetoric at Vilnius University – Euzebiusz Słowacki. As early as a year after the professor’s death (1815), Borowski paid intellectual tribute to him by publishing in the first issue of reactivated Dziennik Wileński Account on life and writings of Euzebiusz Słowacki, professor of rhetoric and poetry in the Imperial Vilnius University. The text can be classified as a press profile. Besides the biographical excerpts, it contains the presentation of his attitude to life, discreet evaluation, and valorization of his scientific and literary heritage. By reading between the lines, I also learned a lot about Borowski’s ideas, i.e., views on the art of translation. It’s a perfect example of bygone good practices in upholding the intellectual and cross-generational relations of the scholars. These fine academic traditions are becoming – unfortunately – rarer and rarer.