Podróż Jacka Idziego Przybylskiego do bibliotek zagranicznych przed objęciem dyrekcji w Bibliotece Jagiellońskiej w Krakowie

Abstract

[Jacek Idzi Przybylski’s Travels to Foreign Libraries before Becoming Head of the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow]

The education of librarians in the 18th century was practically non-existent. One of the ways to prepare for this profession was to visit foreign libraries. In the years 1785-1786 such an educational journey was ventured on by Jacek Idzi Przybylski (1756-1819), the future librarian of the Principal School of the Realm Library in Cracow. What was planned to be a three-year-long travel to the greatest libraries of Germany, Italy, France and England, was shortened to a single year. Przybylski did not manage to visit all the above-mentioned countries. However, he visited all sorts of libraries: those with great collections of books and the smaller ones, state and church, public and private libraries. On his way to Vienna he saw - among others - the Olomouc Secondary School Library in the Moravian capital. From among Austrian libraries he visited the Imperial Library and the Uni-versity Library in Vienna; the Municipal Library in Prug and the Academic Library in Kla-genfurt...