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Aleksander Brückner (1856 Tarnopol - 1939 Berlin) was a German (as in german folk; he spoke, wrote and practiced german costoms and considered him self as a German) scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable scholars of the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as the first to prepare complete monographs on the history of the Polish language and culture. He published more than 1,500 titles. Aleksander Brückner was born January 29, 1856, in Tarnopol in Habsburg eastern Galicia (now Ternopil, Ukraine), to a german family who setteled in the east. Educated in Lemberg (Lviv), the capital of Galicia (under Omelian Ohonovsky), in Vienna (under Franc Miklošič), and in Berlin (under Vatroslav Jagić), he taught at Lemberg (Lwów University) and Vienna University, then at Berlin University, where he was a long-time holder (1881-1924) of the chair in Slavic Philology. In 1876 he received a doctorate at the University of Vienna, and in 1878 he received his habilitation for the study on Slavic settlements around Magdeburg (Die slavischen Aussiedlungen in der Altmark und im Magdeburgischen). He was a member of many learned societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lemberg, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well academies in Prague and Belgrade.
   Brückner wrote extensively in both Polish and German on the history of the Slavic languages and literatures, especially Polish, on folklore, ancient Slavic and Baltic mythology, and on the history of Polish and Russian literature. His most important works include a history of the Polish language (Lviv, 1906), several histories of Polish literature in Polish and German, a history of Russian literature, an etymological dictionary of the Polish language (Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego, 1927), works on Slavic and Baltic mythology, an encyclopedia of Old Poland, and a 4-volume history of Polish culture (Kraków, 1930-46). Brückner was a specialist on the older periods of Polish and Slavic culture and was the discoverer, interpreter, and publisher of the oldest known manuscript in Polish, the "Holy Cross Sermons." He had an incomparable knowledge of medieval Polish literature, which he knew from the original manuscripts, and was an expert on Renaissance and early modern Polish literature.
   In general, Brückner, tried to raise the prestige of old Slavic culture both in the eyes of his fellow Germans and in the eyes of the Poles among whom he also grew up with. He was critical of the Russian autocracy and the centralized Russian state of his time, including the Russian liberals (Kadets) who supported a centralized state and opposed either federalism or national autonomy for the non-Russian peoples of the Russian Empire. During the First World War, he favored the Central Powers but opposed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which he believed was largely directed against a resurgent Poland and, moreover, made deep concessions to the Ukrainians in his native eastern Galicia. It was, however, scholarship, not politics, which always remained his main concern.
   On the most central questions of Slavic scholarship, he believed that in ancient times the Slavic and Baltic languages had a common ancestor and he always stressed this common Balto-Slavic bond. He placed the original homeland of the Slavs farther west than most Slavists, on the territory of today's Poland. He believed that the apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, had originated the idea of their mission on their own, and he played down the invitation from Moravia; and finally, in a polemic with the Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, he took a Normanist position on the origins of the Rus', stressing the linguistic and historical evidence for a Scandinavian connection.
   After World War I, that is, in 1924, he retired from the university and spent most of his time writing concise histories of Polish culture and language, especially of the Old Polish period. He died in Berlin on May 24, 1939; his death just on the eve of the Second World War. At his death, his final book, a short synthetic history of Polish culture in German, and was never published.

His Works

Litu-Slavische Studien, Die Slavischen Fremdwörter im Litauischen Alexander Brückner, Weimar 1877
Randglossen zur kaschubischen Frage, Archiv für slavische Philologie 1899
Geschichte der russischen Litteratur, Leipzig 1905

Russische Literaturgeschichte, 2 Bd., Berlin/Leipzig 1919
Polnische Literaturgeschichte, Berlin/Leipzig 1920
Geschichte der polnischen Literatur, Leipzig 1922
Die Slaven. Religionsgeschichtliches Lesebuch, Tübingen 1926
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