Maciej Górny
Biographic Data
| ID | 192177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maciej Górny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maciej |
| FAMILY NAME | Górny |
| SIGNATURE | GÓRNY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8594-1365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Humanity is Austria Writ Large’: Erwin Hanslik’s Concept of East Central Europe’s Reconstruction
This article discusses the concepts of the Austrian anthropogeographer Erwin Hanslik. Although this work has inspired many German-speaking geographers, its author has been largely forgotten. Hanslik’s holistic philosophy and his distance from (German) nationalism contributed to his marginalisation, despite the modernity of the media he used. His worldview was linked to the scholar’s biography and identity, based on his attachment to his home regi…
Majorities at War: Transformation of East Central Europe
The article begins and ends with a discussion of the censuses of East Central Europe before and after the First World War. Both the former and the latter were contested by minority activists despite the enormous changes brought about by the post-war settlement. This paradox can be explained, at least in part, through selected case studies that illustrate the asynchronicity of political, economic, and social transformations. The text discusses fir…
Who is a ‘true refugee’? Polish political discourse in 2021-2022
For many years, Poland was a country of emigration, not immigration and even the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 did not affect the reality on the ground in any real way. However, the situation changed as a result of the activities of the Belarusian regime backed by Russia, which in 2021 began to transfer migrants to the borders with the European Union as part of its hybrid operations. As a result, thousands of people have crossed the borders and hundre…
Demeter, G. and Bottlik, Zs: Maps in the Service of the Nation: The Role of Ethnic Mapping in Nation-Building and Its Influence on Political Decision-Making Across the Balkan Peninsula (1840–1914)
Almost a Statesman: East Central Europe's geography experts and the Paris Peace Conference
Minesweeper’: In Remembrance of Włodzimierz Borodziej (1956–2021)
The article outlines the life and achievements of Włodzimierz Borodziej, a contemporary historian. Initially a scholar of the history of Polish-German relations, he became the secretary, and later chairman, of the Polish-German Textbook Commission. Then, he engaged himself in the history of diplomacy and international relations; the ‘Polskie Dokumenty Dyplomatyczne’ [Polish Diplomatic Documents] series was established at his initiative. He also o…
Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, …
Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-1916
Not All Past is Legacy: Echoes of 1917–1923 in Contemporary East Central Europe
The article discusses parallelisms between the social and political realities of East Central Europe around 1917–1923 and the current state of affairs. It starts with an analysis of the dynamic social relations in the final year of the Great War to follow with the question of their impact on politics and a short outline of the region’s history after 1918. While in terms of political and social reality there is little to invite comparison between …
Black Mirror: A Comparative History of Polish and American Failures
Even though they occurred around the same time, the Polish January Uprising of 1863/64 and the American Civil War (1861–5) have seldom been considered in the same context by historians, while comparative historical studies of the events are scarce. The present article explores the historiography relating to both countries to, firstly, outline the most interesting attempts in existing Polish and US-American research to find shared aspects in the t…
A Discussion with Włodzimierz Borodziej, Maciej Górny, Heather Jones and Jörn Leonhard
Science embattled: Eastern European Intellectuals and the Great War
Górny’s study deals with WWI political engagement of science with an eye on Eastern Europe between 1912 (the First Balkan War) and 1923. The writings of intellectuals from this region that subscribed to the tradition of ‘national characterology’ skillfully integrated the most modern science of the time: physical anthropology, psychiatry and anthropogeography. Consequently, neither in the intellectual standing of the authors, nor in the discursive…
A Century of Selective Ignorance: Poland 1918-2018
The article identifies some of the rarely recalled phenomena accompanying Poland's path towards independence. First is the level of economic, cultural, and everyday integration with imperial centers. Second is the growing intensity of interethnic strife. Third, the social turmoil, at times bordering on popular revolt, started in 1917 and lasted long after 1918. Fourth is the large-scale economic transformation and deprivations that this transform…
A vacuum to be filled. Central and Eastern Europe in the times of ‘geography without the Germans’
This article analyses strategies used by geographers of Central and Eastern Europe, foremost Poland, to improve their international position, in the interwar. The boycott of Germany and its former allies almost until mid-1930s was a challenge to this group and it gradually hindered its development. The most original attempt at overcoming the threat of marginalization were congresses of Slavic geographers organized from 1924. The greatest success,…
A racial triangle: Physical anthropology and race theories between Germans, Jews and Poles
The last decades of the nineteenth century saw a growing prominence of German racial sciences. This article documents how East Central European scholars responded to their potential marginalization within the scientific community due to German racial theories in the field of physical anthropology and the popularization of science. Three personalities represent a sample of this variety: Ludwik Gumplowicz, a Polish-Jewish sociologist; Mateusz Miese…
Chronicle
A Digital Approach to East Central Europe's Great War? Possibilities offered by the CENDARI Project* * I would like to thank my colleagues from the CENDARI project for three stimulating years of discussion and collaboration.The thinking presented in this article developed from numerous conversations and meetings in at least six countries.I am especially
Bitterly Triumphant: The Biologisation of National Character in the Twentieth-Century East Central Europe
In early twentieth century racial ideologies and racial anthropology penetrated the traditional concepts of national specificity. It was a rule all over Western Europe, though Germany was clearly the leader both in ideological and institutional terms. In East Central Europe this development was accelerated by an increased intellectual influence of German universities. First World War marked the peak of these processes. Racial anthropology was ex…
Chronicle
Organised on initiative of the Standing Committee of Polish Medievalists, the Congress of Polish Medievalists has been held every three or four years since 2002, each time offering a special opportunity for Polish medieval history researchers to integrate.Preceded by Toru, Lublin, d, and Pozna, Rzeszw was chosen as the fi fth edition's location.Mottoed 'Reception and Rejection.Intercultural Contacts in the Middle Ages', the 5th Congress took plac…
Short notes
This extensive publication, compiled in honour of Professor Janusz Tandecki on his 65th anniversary, contains a comprehensive biographical note, a bibliography, and a list of studies written under Tandecki's scholarly supervision.Eight of the thirty-fi ve essays are in German.The texts are pretty varied, ranging from scientifi c articles to source editions, and chronologically covering the Middle Ages, the modern era as well as our day; grouped i…
Chronicle
Alma y hueso: La antropología física, la Gran Guerra y el nacionalismo en Europa Oriental
During and after the First World War the scientific discourse of racial anthropology served as a tool of ethnic definitions of one’s own and the enemy nations. In the Austrian and German racial anthropology, the notion of Mongolisation was popularly used to represent the Russian enemy as an alien race. This way of thought found its main empirical expression in German and Austro-Hungarian anthropological research on POW’s. Górny shows how active t…
Deutsch-Polnische Erinnerungsorte: Band 4: Reflexionen
Die Texte des vierten Bandes der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte laden dazu ein, einen Blick "hinter die Kulissen" des Projektes zu werfen. Interessierte können Aufschluss über den theoretischen Rahmen der Publikationsreihe gewinnen. Wer sich während der Lektüre der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte gefragt hat, wie Erinnerungskulturen entstehen und wie man sie analysieren kann, findet in diesem Band nicht eine, sondern viele sich ergänzende …
Chronicle
The rapidly expanding fi eld of (Polish) memory studies becomes institutionalised.It also gets historicised, as clearly shown by this issue of Acta Poloniae Historica (APH).The latter job is done not only by historians coming afterwards.It is obviously often done on the spot, so to say, by those engaged in particular social practices in the fi eld.Such is the case of the fi rst big international conference on (collective) memory, organised in War…
Polish-German Realms of Memory: A New Paradigm
The last dozen-or-so years saw realms of memory becoming one of the most readily evoked concepts in the Western-European social sciences and humanities. The seven-volume Les lieux de mmoire (1984-92), 1 edited by Pierre Nora, kicked off an international 'career' for this research category. Nora sought to create a symbolic topography of France, conceived as an inventory of the French memorial legacy, so as to save it thereby from oblivion. The ini…
Dialectical Negation: East Central European Marxist Historiography and the Problem of the Nation
The article compares Marxist histories of historiography in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany of the so called Stalinist period. In the postwar years, historiography contributed to the legitimization of Communist regimes, widely using nationalist narratives. In the 1950s and early 1960s this tendency was partly marginalized and accompanied by a critical reinterpretation of the previous historiographical traditions. Describing the latter pr…
Who is a ‘true refugee’? Polish political discourse in 2021-2022
For many years, Poland was a country of emigration, not immigration and even the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 did not affect the reality on the ground in any real way. However, the situation changed as a result of the activities of the Belarusian regime backed by Russia, which in 2021 began to transfer migrants to the borders with the European Union as part of its hybrid operations. As a result, thousands of people have crossed the borders and hundre…
Almost a Statesman: East Central Europe's geography experts and the Paris Peace Conference
Několik úvah o české historiografii po roce 1989: Remarks on Czech historiography since 1989
Článek se zabývá stavem historického bádání v Československu (České republice) po roce 1989, v komparativní regionální perspektivě. První část textu pojednává fenomén relativního opoždění české diskuse o dopadech komunistického režimu na historiografii. Autor shrnovaného článku zastává názor, že vzhledem k tomuto časovému posunu dospěla česká historiografie k daleko sofistikovanější a metodologicky propracovanější debatě než na počátku 90. let 20…
Dialectical Negation: East Central European Marxist Historiography and the Problem of the Nation
The article compares Marxist histories of historiography in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany of the so called Stalinist period. In the postwar years, historiography contributed to the legitimization of Communist regimes, widely using nationalist narratives. In the 1950s and early 1960s this tendency was partly marginalized and accompanied by a critical reinterpretation of the previous historiographical traditions. Describing the latter pr…
Chronicle
The rapidly expanding fi eld of (Polish) memory studies becomes institutionalised.It also gets historicised, as clearly shown by this issue of Acta Poloniae Historica (APH).The latter job is done not only by historians coming afterwards.It is obviously often done on the spot, so to say, by those engaged in particular social practices in the fi eld.Such is the case of the fi rst big international conference on (collective) memory, organised in War…
Polish-German Realms of Memory: A New Paradigm
The last dozen-or-so years saw realms of memory becoming one of the most readily evoked concepts in the Western-European social sciences and humanities. The seven-volume Les lieux de mmoire (1984-92), 1 edited by Pierre Nora, kicked off an international 'career' for this research category. Nora sought to create a symbolic topography of France, conceived as an inventory of the French memorial legacy, so as to save it thereby from oblivion. The ini…
Deutsch-Polnische Erinnerungsorte: Band 4: Reflexionen
Die Texte des vierten Bandes der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte laden dazu ein, einen Blick "hinter die Kulissen" des Projektes zu werfen. Interessierte können Aufschluss über den theoretischen Rahmen der Publikationsreihe gewinnen. Wer sich während der Lektüre der Deutsch-Polnischen Erinnerungsorte gefragt hat, wie Erinnerungskulturen entstehen und wie man sie analysieren kann, findet in diesem Band nicht eine, sondern viele sich ergänzende …
Chronicle
Alma y hueso: La antropología física, la Gran Guerra y el nacionalismo en Europa Oriental
During and after the First World War the scientific discourse of racial anthropology served as a tool of ethnic definitions of one’s own and the enemy nations. In the Austrian and German racial anthropology, the notion of Mongolisation was popularly used to represent the Russian enemy as an alien race. This way of thought found its main empirical expression in German and Austro-Hungarian anthropological research on POW’s. Górny shows how active t…
Bitterly Triumphant: The Biologisation of National Character in the Twentieth-Century East Central Europe
In early twentieth century racial ideologies and racial anthropology penetrated the traditional concepts of national specificity. It was a rule all over Western Europe, though Germany was clearly the leader both in ideological and institutional terms. In East Central Europe this development was accelerated by an increased intellectual influence of German universities. First World War marked the peak of these processes. Racial anthropology was ex…
Chronicle
Organised on initiative of the Standing Committee of Polish Medievalists, the Congress of Polish Medievalists has been held every three or four years since 2002, each time offering a special opportunity for Polish medieval history researchers to integrate.Preceded by Toru, Lublin, d, and Pozna, Rzeszw was chosen as the fi fth edition's location.Mottoed 'Reception and Rejection.Intercultural Contacts in the Middle Ages', the 5th Congress took plac…
Short notes
This extensive publication, compiled in honour of Professor Janusz Tandecki on his 65th anniversary, contains a comprehensive biographical note, a bibliography, and a list of studies written under Tandecki's scholarly supervision.Eight of the thirty-fi ve essays are in German.The texts are pretty varied, ranging from scientifi c articles to source editions, and chronologically covering the Middle Ages, the modern era as well as our day; grouped i…
Chronicle
A Digital Approach to East Central Europe's Great War? Possibilities offered by the CENDARI Project* * I would like to thank my colleagues from the CENDARI project for three stimulating years of discussion and collaboration.The thinking presented in this article developed from numerous conversations and meetings in at least six countries.I am especially
A vacuum to be filled. Central and Eastern Europe in the times of ‘geography without the Germans’
This article analyses strategies used by geographers of Central and Eastern Europe, foremost Poland, to improve their international position, in the interwar. The boycott of Germany and its former allies almost until mid-1930s was a challenge to this group and it gradually hindered its development. The most original attempt at overcoming the threat of marginalization were congresses of Slavic geographers organized from 1924. The greatest success,…
A racial triangle: Physical anthropology and race theories between Germans, Jews and Poles
The last decades of the nineteenth century saw a growing prominence of German racial sciences. This article documents how East Central European scholars responded to their potential marginalization within the scientific community due to German racial theories in the field of physical anthropology and the popularization of science. Three personalities represent a sample of this variety: Ludwik Gumplowicz, a Polish-Jewish sociologist; Mateusz Miese…
Science embattled: Eastern European Intellectuals and the Great War
Górny’s study deals with WWI political engagement of science with an eye on Eastern Europe between 1912 (the First Balkan War) and 1923. The writings of intellectuals from this region that subscribed to the tradition of ‘national characterology’ skillfully integrated the most modern science of the time: physical anthropology, psychiatry and anthropogeography. Consequently, neither in the intellectual standing of the authors, nor in the discursive…
A Century of Selective Ignorance: Poland 1918-2018
The article identifies some of the rarely recalled phenomena accompanying Poland's path towards independence. First is the level of economic, cultural, and everyday integration with imperial centers. Second is the growing intensity of interethnic strife. Third, the social turmoil, at times bordering on popular revolt, started in 1917 and lasted long after 1918. Fourth is the large-scale economic transformation and deprivations that this transform…
A Discussion with Włodzimierz Borodziej, Maciej Górny, Heather Jones and Jörn Leonhard
Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912–1916
Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from a multitude of different nationalities, most of them dressed in the uniforms of three imperial armies: Russian, …
Forgotten Wars: Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-1916
Not All Past is Legacy: Echoes of 1917–1923 in Contemporary East Central Europe
The article discusses parallelisms between the social and political realities of East Central Europe around 1917–1923 and the current state of affairs. It starts with an analysis of the dynamic social relations in the final year of the Great War to follow with the question of their impact on politics and a short outline of the region’s history after 1918. While in terms of political and social reality there is little to invite comparison between …
Black Mirror: A Comparative History of Polish and American Failures
Even though they occurred around the same time, the Polish January Uprising of 1863/64 and the American Civil War (1861–5) have seldom been considered in the same context by historians, while comparative historical studies of the events are scarce. The present article explores the historiography relating to both countries to, firstly, outline the most interesting attempts in existing Polish and US-American research to find shared aspects in the t…
Demeter, G. and Bottlik, Zs: Maps in the Service of the Nation: The Role of Ethnic Mapping in Nation-Building and Its Influence on Political Decision-Making Across the Balkan Peninsula (1840–1914)
Almost a Statesman: East Central Europe's geography experts and the Paris Peace Conference
Minesweeper’: In Remembrance of Włodzimierz Borodziej (1956–2021)
The article outlines the life and achievements of Włodzimierz Borodziej, a contemporary historian. Initially a scholar of the history of Polish-German relations, he became the secretary, and later chairman, of the Polish-German Textbook Commission. Then, he engaged himself in the history of diplomacy and international relations; the ‘Polskie Dokumenty Dyplomatyczne’ [Polish Diplomatic Documents] series was established at his initiative. He also o…
Who is a ‘true refugee’? Polish political discourse in 2021-2022
For many years, Poland was a country of emigration, not immigration and even the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 did not affect the reality on the ground in any real way. However, the situation changed as a result of the activities of the Belarusian regime backed by Russia, which in 2021 began to transfer migrants to the borders with the European Union as part of its hybrid operations. As a result, thousands of people have crossed the borders and hundre…
Majorities at War: Transformation of East Central Europe
The article begins and ends with a discussion of the censuses of East Central Europe before and after the First World War. Both the former and the latter were contested by minority activists despite the enormous changes brought about by the post-war settlement. This paradox can be explained, at least in part, through selected case studies that illustrate the asynchronicity of political, economic, and social transformations. The text discusses fir…
Political science (14 works) · History (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (7 works) · History (7 works)