Dzieciństwo i edukacja chłopca z rodziny inteligenckiej w drugiej połowie XIX wieku na podstawie „Pamiętników Stanisława Jana Czarnowskiego. Wspomnień z trzech stuleci XVIII, XIX i XX”

Abstract

Stanislaw Jan Czarnowski was a lawyer by education, a journalist and a publisher by profession and a great enthusiast for archaeology, the best-known as a cave researcher of Ojców Valley. He was born in 1845 in an educated family who had landowning roots. He learnt in the Private Herman Hiller School, in Practice Academy and in Classical Middle School in Kielce. The culmination of his education was studies in Warsaw Main School. Czarnowski’s Memoirs include some details applying to his school and student life, besides sociable and cultural life in 19th century Kielce and Warsaw. Upbringing and Stanislaw’s consecutive periods of education were typical for a boy from 19th century educated family and were seldom the same like landowners’ sons education. “Memoirs from 18th, 19th, 20th Centuries by Stanislaw Jan Czarnowski” are valuable source of broadening knowledge about a 19th century Polish family model, about educational methods and an education system, which were in the Kingdom of Poland. Memoirs also present Czarnowski’s youthful years which were the beginning of his interests of literature, nature science, sightseeing and archaeology that he developed in his adult life.