In the article I would like to show Prywatne Gimnazjum Męskie im. Stefana Batorego, the so-called ‘Lublin School’, as an educational environment which, on the threshold of formation of Polish statehood and in the first years of the young state’s functioning, was able to attract many scholars and create a climate friendly to the development of young people, many of whom became eminent scholars, writers, artists, clergy and lawyers. One of them was, among others, Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1902–1980), a psychiatrist, psychologist and pedagogue, doctor of medicine and philosophy, creator of the theory of positive disintegration, who between 1916 and 1923 studied in it. I would like to present people whom Dąbrowski encountered while studying in Lublin and who, thanks to their personality, charisma and scientific achievements, influenced the development of a young man, eager for knowledge.

In the article I would like to show Prywatne Gimnazjum Męskie im. Stefana Batorego, the so-called ‘Lublin School’, as an educational environment which, on the threshold of formation of Polish statehood and in the first years of the young state’s functioning, was able to attract many scholars and create a climate friendly to the development of young people, many of whom became eminent scholars, writers, artists, clergy and lawyers. One of them was, among others, Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1902–1980), a psychiatrist, psychologist and pedagogue, doctor of medicine and philosophy, creator of the theory of positive disintegration, who between 1916 and 1923 studied in it. I would like to present people whom Dąbrowski encountered while studying in Lublin and who, thanks to their personality, charisma and scientific achievements, influenced the development of a young man, eager for knowledge.