Seite - 310 - in Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 - A Social History of a Multilingual Space

310 ♦  Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 64. The whole situation seems to have been provoked by Antoni Walewski, who after his appointment met with hostility at the faculty and sent denunciations of col- leagues who had previously opposed his professorship. The straw that broke the camel’s back, though, was an overtly patriotic demonstration by the geographer Pol during an excursion to the Tatra Mountains. See Henryk Barycz, “Wincenty Pol jako profesor geografii na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim,” Polska Akademia Umiejętności: Prace komisji historii medycyny i nauk matematyczno-przyrod­ niczych 3, no. 2 (1949): 104–10. 65. Waltraud Heindl, “Universitätsreform und politisches Programm: Die Sprachenfrage an der Universität Krakau im Neoabsolutismus,” Österreichische Osthefte 20 (1978): 83. 66. Josef Batron, Der vergessene Mähr. Verehrer Goethes, Ph. Dr. P. Thomas Bratranek OSA, Professor an der Universität Krakau (Olomouc: Historický seminář cyrilometodějské fakulty bohoslovecké, 1937), 11. 67. According to Czas (no. 187, 18 August 1853), Piotr Bartynowski (letter to Agenor Gołuchowski, 27 September 1827, in CDIAL, F. 146, Op. 14, Spr. 1, p. 3) and notices in Dziennnik Podawczy of the Jagiellonian University for 1853 state that while the law faculty fully supported the petition, the medical and philosophical faculties were divided and refused to make a decision on this issue. 68. [František Bratranek], [Der Entwurf einer Petition an das Ministerium für Cultus und Unterricht], undated, identical with petition Z. 730, 27 July 1853 (see Heindl, “Universitätsreform und politisches Programm,” 83n40), quoted here from the transcription in Batron, Der vergessene Mähr. Verehrer Goethes, 13. The orig- inal can be found in MZA Brno, fond E4 (Augustiniáni Staré Brno), kart. 191, folio 40–42 (1457), here 40. 69. Batron, Der vergessene Mähr. Verehrer Goethes, 14. 70. Quoted from Batron, Der vergessene Mähr. Verehrer Goethes, 14. 71. This and the following fragments are not included in Batron. The quotations are from archival materials in MZA Brno, folio 41. The last passage was inserted by an unidentified hand. 72. AUJ, Z. 1129, 7 December 1853; Z. 1168, 23 December 1853. Martial law was in force from November 1848 until 1854. 73. AUJ, S II 808, 19 October 1854, Z, 25543 (Kozubowski); AUJ, S II 815, 13 June 1856 (Majer). 74. AUJ, Z. 1129, 7 December 1853; Z. 1168, 23 December 1853. 75. Inquiry of the University of Cracow’s Academic Senate, in DALO, F. 26, Op. 7, Spr. 39, Z. 351, 9 August 1854. 76. Czas, 18 August 1853, 1. The journalist strongly opposed one of the points raised by the petition, namely, the claim that the Polish language did not have the appro- priate terminology and vocabulary; see Czas, 29 September 1853. 77. In October 1869 the faculty agreed to divide the chair of German literature into two, with lectures in both languages. AUJ, WF II 157, 14 October 1869. The doc- ument establishing Polish as the (almost) exclusive language of instruction was issued several months later on the occasion of the relocation of the philologist