21 research outputs found
Avicennas Vorrede zum « Liber Sufficientiae » und Roger Bacon
No full textBirkenmajer Alexandre. Avicennas Vorrede zum « Liber Sufficientiae » und Roger Bacon. In: Revue néo-scolastique de philosophie. 36ᵉ année, Deuxième série, n°41, 1934. pp. 308-320
Découverte de fragments manuscrits de David de Dinant
No full textBirkenmajer Alexandre. Découverte de fragments manuscrits de David de Dinant. In: Revue néo-scolastique de philosophie. 35ᵉ année, Deuxième série, n°38, 1933. pp. 220-229
Józef Birkenmajer as a translator of English and American poetry (Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Allan Poe)
No full textJózef Birkenmajer (1897–1939) was literary scholar and translator from classical and modern languages. He formulated the concept of ‘co-creative translation’, which assumes that the translator and the author of the original text enjoy the same status of creators. Although he translated a host of English novels, what he liked most was highly rhythmic verse, a preference not hard to detect in the list of his publications. His translations of Rudyard Kipling belong to the classics of the genre. By giving full attention to the poems and rhyming couples in Kipling's stories, Birkenmajer pioneered the notion of integral translation. His habit of lacing his journalism and other forms of writing with memorable verses from Kipling's books led many Polish readers to see Kipling primarily as a poet. Birkenmajer was also a translator of the poems and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, on whose ‘Raven’ he worked in late 1937/early 1938 (it was eventually published in April 1938). While his experiments with obsolete vocabulary and dialect words were on the whole unsuccessful, many of his translations continue to spellbind new generations of readers
The famous citizens from Poznań: Edward Kuntze, Aleksander Birkenmajer, Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński and their reformative politics in librarianship as a source of inspiration for librarians
No full textThe author presents, in five points, the scientific and professional profiles of librarians, directors of Poznań University Library, related not only to Poznań environment: E. Kuntze, A. Birkenmajer, S. Vrtel-Wierczyński. In the article it is shown their role in the creation of modern librarianship in Poland in XX century.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00
Anthropocene : a new geological epoch?
No full textThe Anthropocene is a new epoch proposed by Crutzen and Stoermer (2000), with a base at 1950 AD or 1800 AD. The present author doubts its value while studying Quaternary stratigraphic columns, as its base signal (Holocene/Anthropocene) might be unrecognizable in field sections. The usage of the Anthropocene epoch would probably be restricted to areas of massive direct negative human impact on Nature, predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere. In much less affected Southern Hemisphere deserts (Australia), mountain chains (the Andes), the near-pristine glaciated Antarctic continent and Subantarctic islands, separation of the Anthropocene time-unit (as a formal epoch) from the Holocene epoch would be artificial, even useless. On the other hand, the informal term might be useful for economic geographers, planners, sociologists, and Nature- protectionists
Polish polar research (outline)
Get PDFThe article describes Polish research and discoveries in the Arctic and the Antarctic since the 19th century. The author is a geologist and since 1956 has been engaged in scientific field research on Spitsbergen, Greenland and Antarctica (23 expeditions). For many years chairman of the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, he is now its Honorary Chairman
Polskie badania polarne (zarys)
No full textThe article describes Polish research and discoveries in the Arctic and the Antarctic since the 19th century. The author is a geologist and since 1956 has been engaged in scientific field research on Spitsbergen, Greenland and Antarctica (23 expeditions). For many years chairman of the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, he is now its Honorary Chairman.</jats:p
Aleksander Birkenmajer's research on the philosophy of Witelon as an inspiration to change the assessment of the Middle Ages in education programs
Get PDFZarówno warsztat naukowy Birkenmajera, jak i metoda jego pracy, a także jej osiągnięcia mogą stać się przykładem właściwego podejścia naukowego do Średniowiecza. Obraz tej epoki, jaki się przy tym rysuje, jest radykalnie odmienny od królujących na ten temat stereotypów, obecnych ciągle jeszcze w programach szkolnych. Aleksander Birkenmajer (1890-1967) był znakomitym polskim mediewistą, dzięki wszechstronnemu wykształceniu doskonale przygotowanym do pracy nad średniowiecznymi rękopisami. W swoich pracach wielokrotnie podkreślał konieczność dostrzegania ścisłego związku pomiędzy historią filozofii oraz historią nauk matematyczno-przyrodniczych. Dyrektywą metodologiczną stało się dla niego to, że średniowieczna filozofia o wiele bardziej niż myśl późniejsza powiązana była z całą ówczesną wiedzą, aczkolwiek jej zakres był nieporównanie mniejszy niż dzisiejszych nauk szczegółowych. W swoich badaniach nad filozofią Witelona Birkenmajer podkreślał, że był on filozofem - przyrodnikiem, który posługiwał się światłem w rozwiązywaniu metafizycznych problemów - co czyniło wówczas wielu, np. Ryszard Bacon czy też Robert Grosseteste. Perspektywa Witelona jest w istocie traktatem matematyczno-fizycznym ze wstępem o charakterze metafizycznym. Birkenmajerowi udało się m.in. ustalić, że Witelon jest autorem traktatu De natura daemonum, którego znajomość może wpłynąć istotnie na rozumienie całości jego filozoficznych poglądów. Polski mediewista zauważył nadto, że w traktacie znajdują się symptomy tzw. teorii podwójnej prawdy, pod której wpływem bywał śląski uczony - być może nie do końca świadomie.Birkenmajer wydobył i przekonująco opisał pewne wątki filozofii Witelona, które znacząco ograniczają interpretowanie jego myśli w paradygmacie neoplatońskim.Both Birkenmajer's method of work and his achievements, can serve as an exampleof a appropriate scientific approach to the Middle Ages. The picture of the period he presented radically differs from the stereotypes still prevailing in school educational programmes. Aleksander Birkenmajer (1890-1967) was an prominent Polish medievalist. Owing to his comprehensive education he gained rare competence to work on medieval manuscripts. In his texts, he repeatedly highlights the close relatedness between the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics and natural sciences. The close relation between philosophy and the then science, albeit its scope was much narrower than the purview of today's natural sciences, became the methodological directive for him. In his research on the philosophy of Witelon, Birkenmajer emphasized the point that he was a philosopher - naturalist, using light in solving metaphysical problems, like many others did in his times, e.g. Richard Bacon or Robert Grosseteste. Witelo's Perspective is virtually a mathematical-physical treatise with a metaphysical introduction. Birkenmajer managed, among others, to determine that Witelon was the author of the treatise De natura daemonum, the acquaintance of which can have a significant impact on the understanding of his philosophical views as a whole. The Polish medievalist also discerned in the treaty some symptoms of the so-called ‘theory of double truth', whose influence the Silesian scholar might not be quite aware. Birkenmajer brought out and convincingly described certain aspects of Witelon's philosophy, which significantly delimit the possibility to construe his ideas in the neo-Platonic paradigm
Wielkie i małe sprawy Kazimierza Piekarskiego wyczytane z listów do Aleksandra Birkenmajera
No full textKazimierz Piekarski’s big and small causes: as read in letters to Aleksander BirkenmajerProfessor Aleksander Birkenmajer’s rich legacy, kept in the Manuscript Department of the Jagiellonian Library, includes among his correspondence writings by Kazimierz Piekarski. This collection comprises twenty letters, seven postcards, one note, a visiting card, a postal order and an invitation to a celebration in memory of the late Kazimierz Piekarski. The letters written between 1921-1942 are an interesting testimony to the over twenty-year-long collaboration between the two scholars broken by Piekarski’s premature death. The subjects of the letters included problems with Piekarski’s methods, his research, his publishing, bibliophilic and organisational work among Polish librarians in the inter-war period, as well as social and personal affairs of the author of the letters. What should also be noted is the language of these letters – Kazimierz Piekarski was famous for his brilliant wit, self-mockery and critical but very humane approach to human weaknesses. Despite its fragmentary nature Kazimierz Piekarski’s legacy deserves to be brought back from obscurity because of the figure of its author – an eminent scholar, exceptional librarian and fascinating human being.Kazimierz Piekarski’s big and small causes: as read in letters to Aleksander BirkenmajerProfessor Aleksander Birkenmajer’s rich legacy, kept in the Manuscript Department of the Jagiellonian Library, includes among his correspondence writings by Kazimierz Piekarski. This collection comprises twenty letters, seven postcards, one note, a visiting card, a postal order and an invitation to a celebration in memory of the late Kazimierz Piekarski. The letters written between 1921-1942 are an interesting testimony to the over twenty-year-long collaboration between the two scholars broken by Piekarski’s premature death. The subjects of the letters included problems with Piekarski’s methods, his research, his publishing, bibliophilic and organisational work among Polish librarians in the inter-war period, as well as social and personal affairs of the author of the letters. What should also be noted is the language of these letters – Kazimierz Piekarski was famous for his brilliant wit, self-mockery and critical but very humane approach to human weaknesses. Despite its fragmentary nature Kazimierz Piekarski’s legacy deserves to be brought back from obscurity because of the figure of its author – an eminent scholar, exceptional librarian and fascinating human being
DAVID DE DINANTO REDIVIVUS THE IMPORTANCE OF REV. PROF. MARIAN KURDZIAŁEK’S RESEARCH ON DAVID OF DINANT IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
No full textPhilosophical ideas of David of Dinant were condemned by the Paris synod in 1210, which were confirmed in 1215 by Cardinal Robert Courçon, papal legate. The main reason of this condem- nations was the David of Dinant’s materialistic pantheism. In consequence reading and owning the David of Dinant’s works became punishable by excommunication. A French scholar G. Théry partially developed his ideas according to excerptions of his works largely derived from Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and others. A Polish historian Aleksander Birkenmajer found in Ghent (BU 5), Oxford (Bodl. Libr. Digby 67), Paris (BnF lat. 15453) and Wien (ÖNB 4753) libraries the medieval manuscripts containing some fragments of the David of Dinant’s works. Rev. Marian Kurdziałek, a follower of A. Birkenmajer, as the author of the critical edition of David[is] de Dinanto Quaternulorum presented in a new context the early days of the Aristotle’s works reception into Latin culture. Quaternulorum fragmenta edited by M. Kurdziałek served for almost fifty years as an important source of knowledge on David of Dinant. Nowadays, Rev. M. Kurdziałek’s findings are almost fully acknowledged by the contemporary researchers of David of Dinant’s thought.Filozoficzne poglądy mistrza Dawida z Dinant, jednego z pierwszych łacińskich egzegetów pism przyrodoznawczych Arystotelesa ze schyłku XII i z początków XIII wieku, zostały potępione przez Synod Paryski w r. 1210 i ponownie w r. 1215 przez papieskiego legata Roberta z Courçon. Głównym powodem potępienia był głoszony przez Dawida materialistyczny panteizm. Potępienia te zabraniały pod karą ekskomuniki lekturę i posiadanie pism tegoż autora, nakazywały ich konfiskatę i spalenie. Francuski uczony, G. Théry, częściowo zrekonstruował poglądy Dawida w oparciu o cytaty z jego pism, jakie przekazał w swoich dziełach Albert Wielki i kilku innych autorów średniowiecznych (m. in. Tomasz z Akwinu). Polski historyk nauk, Aleksander Birkenmajer, odkrył i zidentyfikował anonimowe fragmenty dzieł Dawida w średniowiecznych rękopisach, zachowanych w bibliotekach Gandawy (BU 5), Oksfordu (Bodl. Libr. Digby 67), Paryża (BnF lat. 15453) i Wiednia (ÖNB 4753). Fragmenty te wydał krytycznie uczeń A. Birkenmajera, ks. prof. Marian Kurdziałek. Jego edycja David[is] de Dinanto Quaternulorum fragmenta i analiza tekstów ukazała w nowym świetle początki recepcji dzieł Arystotelesa w kręgu kultury łacińskiej w okresie Średniowiecza i służyła przez prawie pół wieku jako najważniejsze źródło wiedzy o mistrzu Dawidzie i jego poglądach. Dociekania naukowe ks. Kurdziałka, dotyczący Dawida, były punktem wyjścia do dalszych badań, podjętych przez B. Lawn’a, E. Maccagnolo, G. Vuillemin-Diem i E. Casadei, uwieńczonych odnalezieniem i identyfikacją dalszych dzieł Dinatczyka oraz krytyczną edycją wszystkich jego dotychczas znanych tekstów (E. Casadei, 2008). Najnowsze studia nad Dawidem z Dinant potwierdziły niemalże w całej rozciągłości ustalenia ks. Kurdziałka dotyczące tego kompleksu i obaliły próbę ich częściowej dekonstrukcji i krytyki
