Anniversary of the death of a prominent historian and social activist of the interwar period, Kazimierz Marian Morawski.
Today in our calendar we will look at the figure and performance of this man.
Kazimierz came from the Galician branch of the Greater Poland noble household of the Moravian coat of arms of Nałęcz. His parents were prof. of the Jagiellonian University Kazimierz and Helena from the home of Wężyk. After graduating from Kraków's junior advanced school he began his historical studies in Munich in 1902. He continued to survey past and doctrine at the Jagiellonian University, earning his doctorate in 1907. In 1911 he married Irene Mankowska, with whom he had 4 sons.
In his youth, he became active with intellectuals from the environment Stans. They were Austrian Conservatives who criticized Polish national disadvantages, and in place of naive romanticist insurektionism they proposed hard realism and the pursuit of slow social evolution. They pursued their goals by preaching unpopular truths that forced reasoning and shattered belief in widely recognized national superstitions. These views, after any modification, became a determinant of the technological and political activities of Kazimierz Morawski.
He felt that the only way not to make old mistakes that led the Polish state to fall was to examine past in depth and draw conclusions from it for the future. Another crucial motive for his activity was Catholicism and monarchism and the associated support for the natural hierarchical system. In his works, he repeatedly emphasized the moral and organization superiority of the monarchy over dismocracy.
Like his father, he became a associate of the National Right Party. On behalf of this group, in 1914 he joined the Krakow City Council. Right after the outbreak of the war, he was divided with another Kraków conservatives; they were steeped in democratic ideas, which, according to Morawski, were 1 of the causes of weakness, interior decay and consequently the fall of the First Republic.
In addition, he opposed the Galician Central State orientation of most Galician elites, for he felt that the triumph in the war would come to Entent. In June 1915 he moved to Switzerland, where he began working with emigration politicians, e.g. Roman Dmowski, with whom he agreed in part of his views. He founded a tiny organization, the alleged Political Federation of Poland, which sought to rebuild the country based on a monarchist thought with limited elements of democracy.
His proposals did not gain wider support in Polish society. After regaining independence, he returned to the country and worked for more than a year as a diplomatic mission typical in Romania. In 1922 he was 1 of the candidates for Prime Minister's position. He yet became head of the press department of the Wincenti Witos government. At the same time, he completed his long-standing cooperation with the organization of the National Right.
Along with another monarchs, he established the Conservative organization and became editor of its "Biuletyn". He has participated in monarchy conventions many times. In 1926 he joined the Board of the Unity of Polish Monarchists. This organization condemned the May bombing and the sanctioning governments, for which it was dissolved by an administrative decision. Since then, Kazimierz Morawski has only engaged in scientific, social and spiritual work.
He collaborated with the Catholic Action and edited the monthly magazine “Family of Poland”. In his historical works he focused mainly on the 18th century past of Poland. It was of large importance to inform Poles about the behind-the-scenes activity of freemulation. To this end, at the meetings of the Polish Academy of Skills and the Historical Society he gave a series of lectures on the past of the lodge.
In 1938, during the Polish Press Congress, he announced with Jerzy Braun and Wacław Budzyński the creation of the Anti-Masonian Agency, which set itself the goal of combating free-llowing. The aftermath of this comparatively loud initiative was the decree of president Muscicki to dissolve secret societies.
In addition to dozens of press articles, Morawski was besides the author of respective extended works specified as Youth of Ignacy Potocki (1907), Source of Polish cutting. Studies and sketches from the Saxons and Stanislaus era (1935) and What is Freemasonry (1939). In his work he addressed controversial topics, but based on origin materials drawn from national and abroad archives. Thanks to this, his publications had considerable technological value, although they usually went in a different direction than the mainstream of Polish historiography.
After the outbreak of planet War II, he refused to cooperate with the occupier. He took refuge in the countryside, from where he took part by correspondence in the work of the studio centres of the Polish Underground State. The war took 3 of his 4 sons, and he himself died after a brief illness in late 1944.
The determinant of the political-scientific activity of Kazimeir Marian Morawski was the brave fight for the fact and not abstracting from the secret activity of abroad interviews and Masonic luses. In this respect, it is simply a model for all historians and enthusiasts, who, despite ridicule by authoritative factors, consistently strive to discover to Poles what is real but covered.
Significantly, his works were consistently silenced by academic circles both in the days of the Polish People's Republic of Poland and the 3rd Polish Republic, and the facts he gave are inactive not right in the official, politically correct curriculum.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.