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The renascent Polish state was being built in the interwar period (1918–1939), developing its position on all possible levels in the international arena. One of these was education and culture. Poland signed a lot of international agreements in this field. This was connected with visits by our ministerial representatives to other countries and with arranging visits in Poland for guests from different countries. In 1935, three ministers of education from abroad visited Poland: Todor Radev (Bulgaria), Artur Engberg (Sweden) and Bálaint Hóman (Hungary). The purpose of the visit of the first two ministers was the signing of the Polish-Bulgarian and Polish-Swedish cultural agreements. The Hungarian minister of education came to Poland to assess the implementation of the agreement which had been signed between Poland and Hungary a year before. While staying in Poland, beside official meetings with the President and the Ministers of education and foreign affairs, our guests visited various educational institutions in cities such as Warsaw, Krakow, Poznań or Vilnius. The press took a lively interest in those visits, reporting them on an ongoing basis. Apart from news reports, also editorials and even articles were published. These were devoted to some of the educational and cultural issues of our guests' countries.

School chronicles are an important but sometimes underestimated source of information for the history of education. The difficulties with their use result from their dispersion, lack of availability and subjective nature. However, despite their subjectivity, they can provide extremely interesting information, e.g. on the biographies of individual educators. This article focuses on the war fate of school teachers in the Eastern Greater Poland. Almost all of them lost their jobs as a result of the closure of schools. Many were deported to the General Government or to forced labour in Germany. Those who stayed undertook off-an-on work or jobs that had nothing to do with the teaching profession. Despite the threat to their lives, some of them were also engaged in secret teaching. Unfortunately, there were also those who decided to collaborate with the German occupier. The research included in this article should be considered an introduction to research in this source area. ; School chronicles are an important but sometimes underestimated source of information for the history of education. The difficulties with their use result from their dispersion, lack of availability and subjective nature. However, despite their subjectivity, they can provide extremely interesting information, e.g. on the biographies of individual educators. This article focuses on the war fate of school teachers in the Eastern Greater Poland. Almost all of them lost their jobs as a result of the closure of schools. Many were deported to the General Government or to forced labour in Germany. Those who stayed undertook off-an-on work or jobs that had nothing to do with the teaching profession. Despite the threat to their lives, some of them were also engaged in secret teaching. Unfortunately, there were also those who decided to collaborate with the German occupier. The research included in this article should be considered an introduction to research in this source area.

The renascent Polish state was being built in the interwar period (1918-1939), developing its position on all possible levels in the international arena. One of these was education and culture. Poland signed a lot of international agreements in this field. This was connected with visits by our ministerialrepresentatives to other countries and with arranging visits in Poland for guests from different countries. In 1935 three ministers of education from abroad visited Poland: Teodor Radew (Bulgaria), Artur Engberg (Sweden) and Balaint Homan (Hungary). The visit of the first two ministers was connected with the signing of a Polish-Bulgarian and Polish-Swiss cultural agreement. The Hungarian minister of education came to Poland to assess the implementation of the agreement which had been signed between Poland and Hungary a year before. While staying in Poland, beside official meetings with the president and the ministers of education and foreign affairs, our guests visited different educational institutions in cities such as Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan or Vilnius. The press took a lively interest in those visits, reporting them on an ongoing basis. Apart from news reports, editorials and even articles appeared. These were devoted to some of the educational and cultural issues of our guests' countries ; The renascent Polish state was being built in the interwar period (1918-1939), developing its position on all possible levels in the international arena. One of these was education and culture. Poland signed a lot of international agreements in this field. This was connected with visits by our ministerial representatives to other countries and with arranging visits in Poland for guests from different countries. In 1935 three ministers of education from abroad visited Poland: Teodor Radew (Bulgaria), Artur Engberg (Sweden) and Balaint Homan (Hungary). The visit of the first two ministers was connected with the signing of a Polish-Bulgarian and Polish-Swiss cultural agreement. The Hungarian minister of education came to Poland to assess the implementation of the agreement which had been signed between Poland and Hungary a year before. While staying in Poland, beside official meetings with the president and the ministers of education and foreign affairs, our guests visited different educational institutions in cities such as Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan or Vilnius. The press took a lively interest in those visits, reporting them on an ongoing basis. Apart from news reports, editorials and even articles appeared. These were devoted to some of the educational and cultural issues of our guests' countries.

In June 1924, a scholar and Romanian politician, Professor Nicolae Iorga, visited several Polish cities. Some fragmentary materials relating to the organisation of this visit to Krakow were preserved in the archives of the Jagiellonian University. This task was assigned to the university authorities by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In order to provide a reasonably detailed description of this visit to Krakow, the preserved source material as well as press reports from popular newspapers published in this city at the time were analysed. Above all, the analysis was of a qualitative nature. This led to elaboration of a study which illustrates the circumstances of Nicolae Iorga's visit to Krakow and the course of his stay. It also serves as a starting point for similar considerations with regard to other Polish cities - Warsaw, Vilnius, Poznan and Lviv - which were also visited by Nicolae Iorga at the time.