Maciej Junkiert: The New Greeks. Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of Altertumswissenschaft.

Maciej Junkiert: The New Greeks. Polish Romantics’ Historicism and the Emergence of Altertumswissenschaft. Peter Lang 2024. ISBN  9783631906323

Summary

The book discusses the development of Polish studies on Greek antiquity in the first half of the nineteenth century. Junkiert scrutinizes the relationship of Polish intellectuals with their predecessors in this field in France and the German-speaking culture. The book describes scholarly rivalry between nations in search of their own visions of antiquity. Methodologically, the book develops the vein of classical reception studies. The key figures of this study are Adam Mickiewicz, Joachim Lelewel, and Gottfried Ernst Groddeck.