Zainteresowania Jana Karłowicza i Michała E. Brensztejna folklorem litewskim — jako obiekt badań naukowych polonistów Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego

Abstract

The author analyses two scientific studies projects led by Polonists from the Vilnius University. These projects apply to the output of Jan Karłowicz (1863-1903) - linguist, historian, ethnologist, philosopher, musicologist, forerunner of scientific etnography, and to the output of Michał Eustachy Brensztejn (1874-1938) - archeologist, etnographer, historian of culture, librarian and bibliographer. Both scholars came from Lithuania, and both studied lithuanian history language, culture and folklore. Karłowicz is well known as the author of Poradnik dla zbierających rzeczy ludowe (l871) (The guidebook for those who collectfolk, 1871), and collection of Podania i bajki ludowe zebrane na Litwie (1887) (Folk fairytales collected in Lithuania, 1887). M. E. Brensztejn is mainly known as the author of Krzyże i kapliczki żmudzkie. Materiały do sztuki ludowej na Litwie (1906) (Samogitian Crosses and Wayside shrines. Folk art in Lithuania, 1906) and Dajny litewskie zapisane przez Adama Mickiewicza (1927) (Lithuanian songs collected by Adam Mickiewicz, 1927). The output of Karłowicz and Brensztejn is accessible to everyone and can be found in the library stock of Lietuvos valstybes istorijos archyvas (Lithuanian National Archives). These collections were analysed by Polonist from the Vilnius Uniyersity, as part of the project called Jan Karłowicz jako animator życia naukowego i kulturalnego przełomu XIX i XX wieku (Jan Karłowicz as the animator of the cultural life of XIX and XX c.) (the results are published through the website: www.karlowicz@flf.vu.lt). The output of Brensztejn is studied by archeologists from Lithuanian Institute oh History from Vilnius. The Polonist Irena Fedorowicz was invited to collaborate in the scientific studies project called Inwentarz archeologiczny gubernii kowieńskiej Michała Eustachego Brensztejna (M. E. Brensztajn Archeological collection of Kovno Governorate).