August 9, 1924, Saturday

Drohobych. Bruno Schulz asks the Ministry for Religious Denominations and Public Education for a teaching permit. He wants to take the position of the drawing teacher at the Jagiełło State Middle School.

He quotes the act which gives the minister the right to admit to teaching persons without appropriate qualifications for a period of four years1.

He presents his qualifications to teach drawing: studies in Lviv and Vienna and his artistic successes. There are two annexes to his application, one of which is a copy of the state examination certificate from 19142. Apparently, the second was neither the Matura certificate, nor the index from the Lviv Polytechnic, since officials would ask to send these documents on October 6*3.

Before submitting the application to the ministry, Schulz probably contacts the headmaster Jan Matłachowski* and puts him in touch with the school district. Three days earlier, Ludwik Misky, the school inspector, contacts the school board in his cause. The ministry is the highest authority in matters of education, and therefore also the last one on the official path. 

See also: [summer] 1921*, August 8, 1924*, August 16, 1924*, September 1, 1924*, September 3, 1924*, October 6, 1924*. (kw) (transl. mw) 

  • 1
    The Act of September 26, 1922 on professional qualifications for teaching in high schools and at state and private teachers’ seminaries, Journal of Laws 1922, No. 90, item 828.
  • 2
    A certified copy of the state examination certificate, CPAHU-L, Board of the Lviv School District, Lviv, 1921-1939, F 179, O 7, Volume XIII, file 29379, sheet 4.
  • 3
    Bruno Schulz, Dzieła zebrane, tom 5: Księga listów, zebrał i przygotował do druku Jerzy Ficowski, uzupełnił Stanisław Danecki, Gdańsk 2016, pp. 227–228.