- For the Western Institute in Melbourne, see Victoria University,
Australia.
Seat of Western Institute
The
Western Institute in Poznań
(Polish:
Instytut Zachodni, German West-Institut, French:
Institute Occidentale) is a scientific research society
focusing on the Western provinces of Poland
- Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Poland, Silesia, Pomerania),
history, economy and politics of Germany
, and the
Polish-German relations in history and today.
Established by professor Zygmunt Wojciechowski in 1944 in
Warsaw
, since 1945 based in Poznań.
There were
branches in Warsaw (1945–53), Wrocław
(1948–49)
and scientific posts in Kraków
and Olsztyn
.
Full name:
Instytut Zachodni. Instytut
Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w
Poznaniu
Communist era publications
Most of the institutes publications during the communist era that
refer to Polish-German questions have an anti-German slant based on
political considerations. This is due to the
Polish communist regimes belief
that perpetuating "the idea of eternal German-Polish enmity was key
to its own efforts to justify that regime's existence in Polish
eyes". However, it should also be noted that "while many of the
historical works published by this institute have revealed its
overriding political purpose, it has also sponsored a good deal of
high-quality research at a time when Polish scholars had few other
outlets."Richard Blanke,
The American Historical Review,
Vol. 97, No. 2. Apr., 1992, pp. 580-582. Review of: WÅ‚odzimierz
Jastrzębski,
Der Bromberger Blutsonntag: Legende und
Wirklichkeit. and Andrzej Brożek,
Niemcy zagraniczni w
polityce kolonizacji pruskich prowincji wschodnich (1886-1918)
JSTOR
The directors
Main publications
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References
External links
- http://www.iz.poznan.pl/ Instytut Zachodni official site (in
English and Polish)
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