Valerian Kalinka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Valerian Kalinka

Polish historian

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1826

Place of Birth: Bolechowice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1886

Profession: priest, historian, journalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Valerian Kalinka

  • Valerian Kalinka (or Walerian Kalinka) (1826–1886) was a Polish priest and historian. Kalinka was born near Cracow, but fled from Poland in 1846 on account of political entanglements and his involvement in the Krakow Uprising.
  • Kalinka was the founder of the Polish branch of the Resurrectionist Order.
  • He worked on the "Czas" newspaper in 1848, but finally took refuge in Paris, where his first work was written -- Galicia und Cracoio, an historical and social picture of the country from 1772 to 1850.
  • He afterwards thought of writing a history of Polish emigration, but eventually chose to edit a weekly periodical entitled "Political Polish News", the principal contributors to which were himself and Julian Klaczko.
  • Though forbidden everywhere but in Posen, it existed for four years, and dealt with every aspect of Polish national life.
  • Kalinka's articles show an acquaintance with law, administration, history, and statistics, and had mostly to do with the inner life of Poland.
  • He became an activist in the Hôtel Lambert group. After 1863, when searching for documents for a life of Prince Adam Czartoryski, he stumbled on important papers which he published in two volumes as The Last Years of Stanislaus Augustus (1787–95).
  • This work placed him at once in the first rank of Polish writers.
  • Poland had not yet had such an historian, especially in the province of diplomacy and foreign politics.
  • Józef Szujski, though unknown to Kalinka, was at the same time working in the same direction.
  • Both were accused of undermining patriotic self-respect, of lowering Poland in foreign eyes, and of destroying veneration for the past.
  • In the preface to this work, Kalinka had already answered these charges.
  • A Pole, he said, is not less a Pole when he learns from past errors how to serve his country better. About this time Kalinka entered the novitiate of the Resurrection Fathers in Rome, where, save for a few visits to Galicia, he subsequently resided until in 1877, after a visit to the Catholic missions in Bulgaria, he became chaplain of a convent in Jaroslaw.
  • Here in 1880 appeared the first volume of his Sejmczteroletni (The Four Years Diet).
  • To the criticism it received, Kalinka replied: "History calls first for truth; nor can truth harm patriotism." The second volume, appeared in 1886, the end of the thirty years he spent writing.
  • He died in Jaroslaw.

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