September 1, 1924, Monday

Drohobych. On this date, Bruno Schulz is officially employed as a contract teacher at the Władysław Jagiełło State Middle School. It is not known when he actually signs the contract.

Only on September 15, the Board of the Lviv School District would issue a retroactive authorisation dated September 1 for the school to sign a contract with the new teacher. It is known that the end date of the contract is March 15, 1926, although the document has not survived1.

Schulz takes the place of Stanisław Żywar, who, according to official documentation, moved to the Board of the Vilnius School District2. However, Anna Kaszuba-Dębska reports that Schulz’s predecessor fell ill and died3.

In the 1924/1925 school year, the working time is 36 hours a week4. Schulz works the teaching load and is entitled to a salary of the category IX, rank “b”, in the amount of 420 points and 70 points of the regional bonus5. These points are multiplied by the amount depending on the cost of living at the time, specified once a month by the Minister of Treasury. The complicated procedure of calculating salaries results from the raging inflation in Poland. In October 1924, the multiplicand is 0.38 zlotys, so Schulz earns 186 zlotys and 20 groszy at the time. A loaf of bread costs about 40 groszys, medical advice 20–30 zlotys6. Schulz is paid in arrears.

As a contract teacher, he does not receive a teaching card and is not entitled to a reduced price for train tickets. He does not participate in the teaching staff meetings7.

See also: April 29, 1924*, August 6, 1924*, August 9, 1924*, September 3, 1924*, September 15, 1924*, January 14, 1925*. (kw) (transl. mw)

  • 1
    See any list of Schulz’s service, e.g., extract from the list of the service and qualification status of March 20, 1935, CPAHU-L, the Board of the Lviv School District, Lviv, 1921–1939, F 179, O 7, Volume XIII, file 29376, sheet 160 and 161, https://schulzforum.pl/pl/zrodlo/wyciag-z-wykazu-stanu-sluzby-i-kwalifikacyjnego-20-marca-1935 (accessed on May 9, 2021).
  • 2
    Statement of the board of the Władysław Jagiełło Middle School in Drohobych for the 1928/29 school year including the decade 1918–1928, Drohobych 1929, p. 39.
  • 3
    Anna Kaszuba-Dębska, Bruno. Epoka genialna, Kraków 2020, p. 369.
  • 4
    Letter to the boards of all state general secondary schools, teachers’ seminaries and vocational schools on: a) job position and remuneration of contract teachers; b) remuneration for teaching extra-curricular subjects, Official Journal of the National School Council in Lviv 1921, R. XXV, No. 2, p. 69.
  • 5
    Decision of the school district on Schulz’s employment as a contract teacher, CPAHU-L, the Board of the Lviv School District in Lviv, 1921–1939, F 179, O 7, Volume XIII, file 29376, sheet 3v. See also: Regulation of the Minister of Religious Denominations and Public Education in agreement with the Minister of Treasury of May 8, 1923 on the implementation of the Act of March 31, 1922 on the salary of professors and auxiliary educational forces in academic schools, Journal of Laws MWRiOP 1923, No. 14, item 117; The Act of October 9, 1923 on the salary of state officials and the army, Journal of Laws, 1923, no.116, item. 924, http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WDU19231160924/O/D19230924.pdf (access: May 9, 2021); Journal of Laws MWRiOP 1921, no. 5, p. 135.
  • 6
    See: Drożyzna we Lwowie, “Kurier Lwowski” 1924, no. 244, p. 4; Ceny świadczeń, “Kurier Lwowski” 1924, no. 244, p. 4, https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/148313/edition/140141/content?&ref=struct (access date: May 9, 2021).
  • 7
    “Contract teachers are in principle not members of the teaching body in the sense that full-time teachers are, i.e. with the right to participate in conferences (teaching staff meetings). In addition, on a justified request from the school board, the National School Council may vehemently grant individual contract teachers the right to participate in group conferences” (A circular letter to the boards of all state general schools, teachers’ seminaries and vocational schools on: a) positions and remuneration of contract teachers; b) remuneration for teaching extracurricular subjects, p. 70).