Mickiewiczowska wizja "słowiańskiego kontynentu" = Mickiewicz's vision of a "slavic continent"

• Main Author: Ławski, Jarosław
• Other Authors: Kulczycka, Dorota - red., Bielniak, Nel - red.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Polish
• Published: Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego 2015
• Subjects: Mickiewicz; Adam (1798-1855); słowianofilstwo; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://zbc.uz.zgora.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?showContent=true&id=57474; http://zbc.uz.zgora.pl/Content/57474/3_lawski_mickiewiczowska.pdf

The article discusses the vision of the place and role of Slavs in culture and civilization - the vision promulgated by the Polish romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) at College de France in Paris in 1840. From 1840 to 1844, in his capacity as professor of Slavic literatures, he lectured on all Slavic cultures: Western, Eastern and Southern. In his inaugural lecture, drawing on Johann G. Herder's famous theses, Mickiewicz outlined the space inhabited by Slavs: from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Vistula; from Dubrovnik and Varna to Saint Petersburg. He pointed to the fact that even though Slavic lands covered a significant part of two continents, Slavs had not found their own place in culture, science and civilization yet. The professor expressed his conviction that there were great potentialities buried within Slavic nations, their states and cultures, and he strongly asserted that the only way to unite Slavs (and other European peoples) was through a renewed, modern Christianity.