September 3, 1903, Thursday

Drohobych. Schulz begins the second year at the Imperial-Royal Higher Middle School in Drohobych. 

Emanuel Pilpel, later Schulz’s friend, and future general Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski come to class I c.

Some of Schulz’s teachers change. Adam Górski – last year’s class head teacher and gymnastics master – has been on sick leave since May. His course is now taught by Walerian Czykiel, and the presidentis Anatol Łucyk, who also teaches Latin and is the tutor of the class until their graduation. Antoni Ogniewski teaches Polish and Mathematics, and Franciszek Pytel teaches only Geography and History. Other teachers remain the same: Franciszek Chrząstkowski1 runs classes of Drawing, Walery Siczyński – Natural History, Baruch Margulies – Religious Education (Judaism), Antoni Zubczewski – Calligraphy. It is difficult to say who the teacher of German is. Maybe it has not been noted because most of the year it is Górski and next to his name there is only information about his leave2.

See also: July 15, 1903*, July 15, 1904. (kw) (transl. mw)

  • 1
    Franciszek Chrząstkowski (1870–1919) was probably an important figure in the life of young Schulz as his longtime drawing teacher. He passed his Matura exam at the Male Teachers’ Seminary in Lviv, then in the years 1895–1899 he studied at the Imperial-Royal School of Arts Industry in Vienna. He took up a teaching position in Cracow, where he was also a student of Psychology and Art History at the Jagiellonian University. In 1902, he started working in Drohobych and twelve years later he moved to Lviv. After the publication of his local Realschule pupils’ drawings in Teka wojenna, his teaching talent was praised in “Kurier Lwowski”: “All young authors, without exception, express their honest, unforced opinions in their works, and this, alongside the experimental pedagogical value, is the most important advantage of the work which has been so discreetly carried out under the patronage of professor Fr. Chrząstowski, modestly hiding himself in the work, which in fact encapsulates his own work and endeavours. Recognition for these works is at the same time recognition for pedagogical methods of the professor, who persistently promotes the idea of individuality, unfettered by any patterns” (B. J., Teka wojenna, “Kurier Lwowski” 1917, no. 249, pp. 4–5, as cited after: Agnieszka Jankowska-Marzec, Historia jednej rodziny. Chłopomańskie fascynacje Chrząstowskich, [in:] Pany chłopy, chłopy pany, red. W. Szymański, M. Ujma, Nowy Sącz 2016, pp. 38–51 (https://www.academia.edu/31682191/Historia_jednej_rodzin._Ch%C5%82opoma%C5%84skie_fascynacje_Chrz%C4%85stowskich_w_Pany_ch%C5%82opy_ch%C5%82opy_pany_red._%W.Szyski_ma_s. C4% 85cz_2016_s.38-51._One_familys_history_The_Chrz% C4% 85stowskis_peasant-mania_fascinations, accessed on March 27, 2017).
  • 2
    Statement of the Imperial-Royal Higher Middle School in Drohobych for the 1904 school year, Drohobych 1904, pp. 49–52.