Typographer as an editor: Warsaw’s “Friend of Children” at the time of the editorship of Emil Skiwski (September 1890 – June 1892) The fourth editor-in-chief of the Warsaw’s weekly “Friend of Children”, after death of Jan Kanty Gregorowicz, who has been

Abstract

The fourth editor-in-chief of the Warsaw’s weekly “Friend of Children”, after death of Jan Kanty Gregorowicz, who has been running the magazine for 23 years, was his former publisher, owner of a renowned printing facility, Emil Skiwski. As he limited himself to a role of formal representation of the magazine outside, the actual management of periodical he handed to his team composed of Stefan Gębarski, Teresa Jadwiga Papi, Stanisław M. Rzętkowski, Antoni Ślósarski and Henryk Wernic. Officially declaring a strict continuation of the model of the magazine from the time of Gregorowicz, he actually gradually introduced some innovations, such as new interior graphics (including attempts at colorful illustration), resignation from the editorial extract supplement for small children, withdrawal of hostility to the presence of fantastic elements in children’s literature, the introduction of new section, “The world”, which was a kind of selective press about contemporary issues. The sudden death of Emil Skiwski after only 22 months of office resulted in acquisition of this position by his son, also typographer - Jan Kazimierz Skiwski.