Metadata: Count Wiktor Baworowski
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. Manuscripts Department
- Holding institution (official language):
- Львівська національна наукова бібліотека України імені В. Стефаника. Bідділ рукописів
- Postal address:
- Stefanyka St. 2, 79000, Lviv
- Phone number:
- (8-032) 236-80-28
- Email:
- manuscr@lsl.lviv.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 209
- Title:
- Count Wiktor Baworowski
- Title (official language):
- БАВОРОВСЬКИЙ, гр. В.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Baworowski, Wiktor
- Date(s):
- 1440/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- Latin
- German
- French
- Hungarian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 775 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents in this fonds that pertain to Jewish history reflect relations between Jewish communities (and members thereof) and the civil authorities of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Habsburg Empire, are, in particular: a permit issued by the Bishop of Łuck/ Lutsk and Brest A.-E. Wołłowicz to the Jews of the town of Międzyrzec/Mezhyrichi (Volhynia voivodeship) for the construction of a new synagogue on the site of the old one (1760); a court file regarding the confirmation of privileges for opening taverns, trading in salt, etc., that had been granted to the Jewish community of the town of Tłuste (Tovste) of the Austrian Empire’s Czortków (Chortkiv) district by the heir of the city property Antoni Stonecki in 1811, which were contested by the city’s new owner Kalistow Poninski – these materials include a ruling of the Tarnopol court and a subsequent appeal (1891-96); inventories of the household of Jankel Koffler, a Jewish resident of the town of Kozłów, compiled by officials of the Białystok Magistrate (1836); etc.
The fonds also contains materials related to the financial and economic relations of the Baworowski family with Jews who lived on their estates, including extracts from the document logs of castle courts regarding litigation with the Jews I. Peremyshl’skii, H. Kolichinskii and others (1678-1762); and rental agreements concluded by the Jews Leibovich and Sh. Oronovich for mills in the village of Smolanka and taverns in the villages of Krzywe (Kryve) and Smolanka near the city of Tarnopol (1775).
The fonds also includes are documents of particular individuals, including letters of the Jews S. Sokolnicki (written 1691-1702), S. Friedman (1823) and others; a file (1822-37) on the bequest of the Lemberg/Lwów Jewish merchant S. Wosk; the original of a doctoral diploma awarded to A. J. Reis (1885); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Count Wiktor Baworowski (1826-94) was a Polish writer, translator, literary critic, bibliophile, arts patron, collector, poet and knight of the Order of Malta (1888). He received his primary education at home. In 1848 he graduated from the Franciscan University in Lemberg/Lwów, then entered the civil service, receiving a post in the Galician Viceroyalty in Lemberg/Lwów (1849-50). After retiring from service, he took up the management of the estates he received upon the division of the family inheritance with his brothers. Under the pseudonym of “Viktor from Baworów,” he translated works of Christoph Martin Wieland, Lord Byron, Victor Hugo and others into Polish. In 1857 he became a corresponding member of the Krakow Scholarly Society. He assembled a significant collection of literary works from the libraries of the impoverished Polish nobility; the persons hired to locate these materials for him were mostly Jewish merchants. He also collected landmarks of Polish history – early printed books, chronicles, and speeches by Polish kings and cultural and historical figures. Already during Baworowski’s lifetime, the collection of manuscripts and original documents he assembled was well known among European scholars. He committed suicide and was buried in the family tomb in the parish church of St. Wenceslaus in Baworów.
- Access points: locations:
- Międzyrzec
- Tłuste
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single inventory without any apparent order.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary