18 November 1916, Saturday

Vienna. Bruno Schulz enrolls in studies at the Imperial-Royal College of Technology.

There1 he intended to continue his interrupted studies in Lviv at the Faculty of Architecture. On the same day, after paying the semester fee of 50 krone, he received index number 218, entitling him to start the third year of engineering studies2. The subjects in the 1916/1917 academic year included: elements of geodesy (seminars: four hours a week), mechanics, civil engineering statistics (seminars and lectures: six hours a week), construction mechanics: iron and ferroconcrete (seminars: three hours a week) week), civil engineering (lectures: six hours a week) and construction seminars (six hours a week), ancient building art (seminars: three hours a week), architectural drawing and composition seminars (five hours a week), history of architecture, part II (two hours a week), ornament drawing (lectures: one hour a week, seminars: six hours) and modelling – course I (seminars: four hours a week). Schulz still needed to catch up on landscape drawing and watercolors (four hours of seminars per week). (js) (transl. ms)

  • 1
    College of Technology – now the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) – from 21 August 1914 to 20 August 1916, served as a field hospital, and military experiments were carried out in its laboratories. Schulz, who had been in Vienna since 1914, was therefore unable to start studies earlier.
  • 2
    Paolo Caneppele states that Schulz enrolled in his first year of study, while the range of subjects in his student book was in line with the study program for fifth and sixth semester students. This means that before leaving for Vienna, he must have completed two years of study at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic School, passing at least one state examination. Otherwise, he would not have been admitted to the third year of studies at the College of Technology (Paolo Caneppele, “Bruno Schulz w Wiedniu” [in:] W ułamkach zwierciadła. Bruno Schulz w 110 rocznicę urodzin i 60 rocznicę śmierci, edited by Małgorzata Kitowska Łysiak, Władysław Panas, Lublin 2002, p. 535).