Zygmunt Gloger

 ( 1845 Births ) 

Zygmunt Gloger (3November 184516August 1910) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, geographer and ethnographer, bearer of the Wilczekosy coat of arms. Gloger founded the precursor of modern and widely popular Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society (PTTK). Zygmunt Gloger - Starożytnik z Jeżewa. Internet Archive.

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Life He was a son of engineer and Michalina née Wojno. Under the professional influence of historians and geographers Julian Bartoszewicz as well as Józef Ignacy Krasicki, and later Wincenty Pol and Oskar Kolberg, Gloger voyaged through Poland and Lithuania under the foreign Partitions, and corresponded with many European scholars.

Founder of Towarzystwo Krajoznawcze (the Sightseeing Society, precursor of modern PTTK), in his will Gloger gave his impressive collection to that organization as well as to the Towarzystwo Ethnograficzne (the Ethnographic Society), Towarzystwo Bibliotek Publicznych w Warszawie (Public Libraries Society) and Museum of Industry and Agriculture.

His life's work was the Encyklopedia staropolska ilustrowana (1900-1903), still considered a useful and important book about culture of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. His other works include Obchody weselne (1869), Pieśni ludu (1892), Księga rzeczy polskich (1896), Rok polski w życiu, tradycji i pieśni (1900).Dr Marek Adamiec (2003), Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski by Zygmunt Gloger. Uniwersytet Gdański, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Gdańsk.

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Works

• Zygmunt Gloger (2025). 9788321408835, Spółka Wydawnicza Polska. . ISBN 9788321408835
• "Encyklopedia staropolska", Zygmunt Gloger, 1900-1903, online
• "Dolinami rzek. Opisy podróży wzdłuż Niemna, Wisły, Bugu i Biebrzy" Zygmunt Gloger, 1903, online

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See also

• List of Poles

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Further reading

• Józefowicz, Anna. 2019. “Zygmunt Gloger’s "Baśnie I powieści" ("Fairy Tales and Stories") – Composition, Characters, Axiology”. In: Bibliotekarz Podlaski

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