Działaczki i działacze oświatowi w Królestwie Polskim u progu niepodległości

In the Congress Poland at the beginning of 20^th century crucial role in process of the social modernisation was credited education. On October 1905 the Russian authorities permitted to form private elementary and high schools with polish medium of instruction. It started the period of intensive development of scholastic and extracurricular education as well as institutions of adults’ education. 

The dictionary is devoted to activists participating in different forms of education and knowledge popularisation in the Congress Poland in the latter part of 19^th century and in the beginning of 20^th century. It involves women and men of different social background, nationality, and faith. Among them were representants of intelligentsia – doctors, lawyers, scholars and academics, teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, etc., feministic activists, priests, activists for peasantry and working-class education, popularisers of knowledge, reading, and self-education, participants of the debates about education and educational policy. Both volumes contain altogether 676 entries. Biographical notes also incorporate source literature which were created with numerous archival and printed sources.