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Related buildings and spaces

  • Vul. Stefanyka, 11 – residential building
    This four-storied residential house was constructed in 1873-1876 under a project designed by Adolf Kuhn, a Lviv architect, for princess Jadwiga Sapieha, née Zamojska, the wife of Leon Sapieha, the Galician Sejm Marshal. It was the first residential building in the Neo-Gothic style in Lviv and the largest apartment building in the city during the pre-war period. It housed newspapers editorial offices, various societies, workshops and offices. In the 1910s the building became the property of the Ossoliński institution: except apartments, the administration was located there as well as a bookstore (from 1932). The building is an architectural monument of local significance (#280).
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  • Vul. Stefanyka, 11 – residential building

    Vul. Stefanyka, 11 – residential building

People

Jerzy Borejsza – A Polish writer.
Wincenty Pol – This popular Polish poet of the Romantic era was also one of the first geographers in the world and a versatile scholar. Wincenty Pol travelled a lot and was familiar with the nature and antiquities of Galicia. In 1866-1867, he collaborated with conservator Mieczysław Potocki as a correspondent of the Central Commission for the Protection of Monuments. During this time, he became a vocal critic of the institution.
Ivan Stupnytskyi – Fr. Ivan Stupnytskyi is an example of an intellectual for whom, despite his religious rank, studies in numismatics and archeology did not have a clearly religious basis, being rather a pleasure at leisure, which his education and high social position allowed him. Chancellor of the Greek Catholic Church, bishop of Przemyśl and deputy marshal of the Galician Diet, he also was a correspondent of the Viennese Central Commission for the Protection of Monuments in 1866-1890.

Organizations

  • The Central National Council

    The Central National Council

    The Council was the main representative body of the Polish revolutionary movement in Lviv during the Spring of Nations in April-November 1848. It sought liberal constitutional reforms, the establishment of a Polish administration in Galicia, the Polonization of education, and the abolition of serfdom. It started a new "legalistic" stage in the Polish national movement in Galicia.This publication is a part of the Spring of Nations in Lviv project.

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