This article concerns the evolution of the worldview of a famous Polish author Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887) concerning the legal state of lands controlled by the Prussian state (Germany since 1871), the eastern territories, which the writer considered to be Polish. This analysis concerns the 1858-1872 period, that is since his first journey west, when he spent time in Wrocław and Silesia, until 1872, when his brochure, The Polish Programme 1872. Thoughts about the national task (Program Polski 1872. Myśli o zadaniu narodowym) saw print, which was his informal political testament and a culmination of his political journalism concerning Western Poland. In the following years, until his death, he focused on writing novels, with mainly anti-German themes. The subject of detailed analysis are Kraszewski’s voluminous Balances (Rachunki), published annually in the years 1866-1869, in which he meticulously jotted down and commented upon the development of the Polish nation in the areas conquered by Prussia during the three partitions, in the years 1772-1795 (Greater Poland, Pomerania and Warmia), as well as Silesia and Masuria, which were not conquered, seeing as they were not part of Poland before 1772. In Balances from 1869, he called all these lands, for the first time, by the common name of the Prussian partition, this was to indicate their similar socio-political situation and the national link between all Polish lands under Prussian rule, regardless of their legal status. To the author this was Western Poland, which the Poles should incorporate into the free Polish state in order to achieve a historic restoration of ancient lands by the Oder river and the Baltic Sea.
Jozef Glinkiewicz (1845-1905) was an editor, journalist, man of letters and translator living in the Prussian partition. As an editor in charge of the daily 'Gazeta Torunska' he was the subject of several lawsuits, in which he was fined and sentenced to two years of prison. Faced with this prospect, he left Germany in July 1875 and moved to Vienna, where he worked as an editor until his death.
Polish editors of the Pomeranian press in 1848-1914 were frequently changing places of employment, moving from the Gdansk Pomerania to Upper Silesia, Warmia and Masuria, Westphalia and Rhine and the Grand Duchy of Posen. The vacancies left by these peregrinating editors in West Prussia were in turn filled by journalists from Greater Poland
The article discusses the state and outlook of research on the Pomeranian press of the period 1848-1939. It draws attention to the need for a complete bibliography and a synthesis of the history of the region's press. It also discusses problems faced by researchers and the need for them to share with each other their knowledge of the history of the Pomeranian press.
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