Juliusz Bardach and the agenda of socialist history of law in Poland
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: J. Bardachas; Lietuva; Stepono Batoro universitetas; Lietuvos statutai; Lietuvos teisės tradicija; Lenkija; Teisės istorija. Keywords: J. Bardach; Lithuania; Stephan Batory university; Lithuanian Statutes; Lithuanian legal tradition; Poland; History of law.Reikšminiai žodžiai: Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Juliusz Bardach; Istorikai; Historians.
ENThe most remarkable aspect of Bardach’s work is his lifelong study of Lithuanian law, in which he became the best-known specialist in Europe next to Łowmiański (Olszewski, 2010, p. 162). When still a student, he gave a talk on Lithuanian law at the General Congress of Polish Historians in Vilnius in 1935, and in 1938 he published a dissertation on adoption in the Lithuanian law. His warm feelings for Lithuania were born in his student days in Vilnius and never ceased throughout his lifetime. These sentiments were as useful as they were genuine: they were in line with Ehrenkreutz’s seminar and it was an established area of research at the Stefan Batory University. The importance of Lithuanian law and in particular of the Lithuanian statutes for legal developments in Eastern Europe was an additional argument: in the early 1930s, it was neither an exotic interest nor a marginal one. Moreover, studies on the legal traditions of Poland-Lithuania were of great political relevance in the 1930s, and to pick Lithuania as a subject of research might have been at the time a good career move. [Extract, p. 124]
