Metadata: Adrian Baraniecki’s School of Higher Courses for Women in Krakow
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- ul. Sienna 16, 30-960 Kraków
- Phone number:
- (+48 12) 4224094
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/486/0
- Title:
- Adrian Baraniecki’s School of Higher Courses for Women in Krakow
- Title (official language):
- Kursa Wyższe dla kobiet im. Adriana Baranieckiego w Krakowie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Adrian Baraniecki School of Higher Courses for Women in Krakow
- Date(s):
- 1868/1934
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3.08 linear metres (90 units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Adrian Barniecki School of Higher Course or Women in Krakow is valuable as it contains materials on the education of women (over 16 years) of different denominations, while there was a lack of higher education for women in the second half of the 19th and first decades of the 20th century. 100-200 students attended the courses, mainly from Galicia and the Russian partition. General alphabetical and chronological lists for individual years contain from a dozen to 40 names of Jewish students. The collection includes genealogical information about the students, in particular copies of Jewish civil records and school certificates. The records are very useful for creating profiles of Jewish female students.
29/486/1: Lists of female students divided into subjects - literary, artistic (Rapaport, Kehlman Fritsch), listing first name, surname, place of origin, list of subjects, tuition lists.
29/486/33: Minutes of meetings of the teaching staff and the school administration with the heads of faculties (1899) including consideration of tuition fee exemptions for Jewish students of the literary and history courses.
29/486/34: Alphabetical and chronological register of certificates issued by the school of higher courses for women (names including Danheiser, Bittman, Krautler, Kaufmann, Sielbermann, Goldfinger, Wassberg, Wohlfeld, Bauminger, Silberring, Landau, Grossbard), information what course the students graduated from, which exams they passed and when they received their diplomas.
29/486/38: Uncollected school reports listing a scale of grades, a list of subjects, information on progress made in learning, and foreign languages studied. The following surnames of Jewish students in the school appear: Miner (St. Sebastian six-class female school in Krakow), Perlberger (the Konarski 5-grade school), Pfeffer (M. Konopnicka no. XVII 7-grade primary school), Rakower (the Konarski school), Rakower, Rapaport school certificates, (Scholastica 6-class girls’ school in Krakow), excerpts from Warsaw and Wroclaw Jewish records, Raber (H. Sienkiewicz 3-class girls school in Podgórze), Rauch (Klementyna Tańska School for girls in Krakow), Reibscheid (2-class trade school). Surnames: Reich, Reiner, Ritterman, Rose (private female high school [gimnazjum]), Rosenberg, Rubinlicht, Rubinstein, Schamroth, Schmald, Schenker, Siegel.
29/486/6: A dozen or so Jewish personal files from 1910-1912. They contain the student's surname, country and municipality affiliation, place and year of birth, nationality, religion, name and address of the father or guardian, information regarding the submitted school certificate, place of residence, list of monthly fees paid for education, a simplified list of grades for I and II semesters (Aleksandrowicz, Bauminger, Freiman, Rakower, Susser, Landau).
29/486/45: Applications for exemption from tuition, notes referring to the writing of an exam report (Landau), issuing a temporary certificate (Ritterman, Faerber).
29/486/67: Cash report (income and expenses), loans, expenses for postal services, purchase of books, magazine subscriptions, also expenses for Jewish students and loans granted to them.
Lists of female and male students auditing classes (Hoeffler, Ruppert).
- Archival history:
- Initially, records from the Baraniecki School for Higher Courses were stored in the school’s building at 32 Karmelicka St. in Krakow, and then probably in the building of the School of Social Work at 24 Straszewskiego st. in Krakow. In 1934, the records were transferred to the State Archives in Krakow. Some printed school reports of the Baraniecki School for Higher Courses for Women held by the Pedagogical Provincial Library in Krakow were made available online.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The physician and social activist Adrian Baraniecki organised special courses for young women in Krakow (1868) due to the lack of educational institutions for women. Initially, these were only lectures for women at the Museum of Technology and Industry. From 1870, the program was divided into 5 faculties: historical and literary, natural sciences, arts, trade and economy (the last two were limited in scope). The headquarters of the courses was the building at 32 Karmelicka St. The courses were financed from a fund set up by the founder and to a smaller extent from student tuition fees. After Baraniecki's death in 1891, the school was financed by the city of Krakow. Additional subjects were introduced, such as psychology, history, ethics, political economy, physiology, and home economics. In 1896, a rule was established that daily students would be required to attend 3 hours of lectures. In 1912, new faculties, social-educational and rural economics, were introduced. After Poland regained independence and opened universities, the courses lost their importance and eventually closed in 1925. The School of Social Work replaced the courses; it was established at 24 Straszewskiego St. and had two departments: the social work faculty prepared librarians, secretaries and officials, and the trade and economic faculty for high school graduates that prepared lawyers, technicians, bankers, industrialists, and agronomists.
- Access points: locations:
- Krakow
- System of arrangement:
-
1. Profiles of female students 1900-1924 (ref. no. IT 1156-1165)
2. Exam reports 1892-1924 (ref. no. IT 1166-1187)
3. Minutes of meetings of the teaching staff 1899-1922 (ref. no. IT 1188)
4. Certificates and diplomas 1893-1924 (ref. no. IT 1189-1193)
5. Administration (correspondence logs, blank forms for certificates and diplomas, information forms, regulations, reports, inventories, ID cards) 1898-1930 (ref. no. IT 1194-1216, 1216a)
II. Society for Mutual Assistance of the students of the School of Higher Courses (minutes of general meetings, address book of members, correspondence) 1896-1938 (ref. no. IT 1217-1224)
III. Union of former Students of the School of Higher Courses (minutes of general meetings, accounting books) 1925-1933 (ref. no. IT 1225-1230)
IV. School of Social Work (exam reports, lesson logs, certificates, administrative records) 1925-1931 (ref. no. IT 1231-1240)
- Access, restrictions:
- Microfilms, scans or photocopies are retrieved if available. Retrieval of original copies requires permission from the director.
- Finding aids:
-
J. Kras, Wyższe Kursy dla Kobiet im. A. Baranieckiego w Krakowie 1868-1924, Kraków 1972.
A simplified inventory and online finding aids are also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2019