About the Modern Education in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – the Poznan Educational Model in the Age of Enlightenment

Abstract

The exemplary educational center in Poznan, which was established in 18th century, has been able to compete with the best such institutes of the Central and Eastern Europe. There was only the single such equivalent school on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, that is Vilnius academy. Within the Poznan educational model a main attention was focused on mathematics, experimental physics, astronomy and other modern sciences (including geology and meteorology). The educational success of Poznan Jesuit College in the Age of Enlightenment was primarily the result of intensive activity of such person as Józef Rogaliński. His wonderful education, close contacts with West-European science and the dedicated attitude to his work, which has been carried out during the extremely hard time of Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, have played a particularly important role in the increasing of the Poznan Jesuit College's scientific level.