TY - JOUR
TI - The Reverend Professor Philip Diaczan. The Picture of a Warsaw-based Russophile
AU - Jasiński, Michał Stanisław
TI - The Reverend Professor Philip Diaczan. The Picture of a Warsaw-based Russophile
AB - Philip Diaczan (1831–1906) was one of the vital figures within the Russophiles of Galicia, a popular pro-Russian, anti-Polish movement in Austria-Hungary. Having studied in Vienna under Franc Miklosic, in 1858 he started his career as a Greek Catholic priest and a gymnasium teacher in Lviv and Berezhany, specializing in classical languages. In 1866, he moved to the Kingdom of Poland and soon led a mass exodus of Greek Catholic clergy fleeing to Russia in order to embrace better living conditions, and, eventually, join the Orthodox Church in 1875. A gymnasium teacher of classics, first in Chełm, then in Warsaw, in 1874 he was given a professorship at the University of Warsaw, which he held onto until 1903. Lacking in professional competence, he became the very epitome of a social climber and an apparatchik of the superintendent Alexander Apukhtin, giving a bad name to the Imperial University as a place purportedly full of intrigue and devoted to the Russification of Poles instead of spreading academic knowledge.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 64, Issue 2
PY - 2019
SN - 0023-589X
C1 - 2657-4020
SP - 9
EP - 44
DO - 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.012.10342
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/ks-prof-filip-diaczan-1831-1906-portret-warszawskiego-moskalofila
KW - Filip Diaczan
KW - biography
KW - professor
KW - University of Warsaw
KW - teacher
KW - gymnasium
KW - Galicia
KW - Kingdom of Poland
KW - Lviv
KW - Chełm
KW - Warsaw
KW - Uniates
KW - Orthodox Church
KW - Russophiles