Jan Ludwik Popławski’s fascination with the Polish ‘Common People’

Michał Kowalczyk

doi:10.21697/sc.2016.23.19en

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Vol. 23 (2016)

Jan Ludwik Popławski’s fascination with the Polish ‘Common People’

Michał Kowalczyk

Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.19en

Abstract

Jan Ludwik Popławski (1854-1908) was one of the fathers of the Polish National Democratic ideology in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was particularly fascinated with matters pertaining to the common people, and especially Polish peasantry. He considered them to be the genuine Poles, free of foreign influences. It is worth pointing out that that he also served as an inspiration to Roman Dmowski, the founder of the National Democracy movement and one of the leaders whose efforts secured Polish independence. According to Popławski, the Polish gentry were servile to the powers occupying Poland. He therefore hoped that the common people would play a greater role in the political life of the nation.

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folksiness, folk, nationalism

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Kowalczyk, M. (2021). Jan Ludwik Popławski’s fascination with the Polish ‘Common People’. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 23(1), 246–257. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2016.23.19en

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Michał Kowalczyk

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UKSW, Warszawa Poland

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Michał Kowalczyk, MA, born in 1989, a graduate of the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, a postgraduate student at the Institute of Political Science at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Main scientific interests: history and policy of Hungary, Polish-Hungarian relations, Hungarian foreign policy, nationalism in the Central-Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland and in Hungary. The author of several scientific papers.