@ARTICLE{Sawaniewska‑Mochowa_Zofia_Jan_2021,
 author={Sawaniewska‑Mochowa, Zofia},
 volume={No LXX},
 journal={Rocznik Slawistyczny},
 pages={223-234},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN},
 abstract={Maciej Rak's book is a very reliable and well‑structured study, based on unknown manuscripts by Jan Karłowicz, found in 2017 in the Scientific Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences (AN PAN) and the Archive of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Kraków. An in‑depth analysis of Karłowicz's archives, i.e. the files of Lexicon of Polish Dialects [ Słownik gwar polskich], Lexicon of Polish Mythology [ Słownik mitologii polskiej] and the Little Lexicon of Lithuanian Mythology [ Słowniczek mitologii litewskiej], carried out on the broad comparative background, allows us to take a broader look at the scholar's achievements in the field of Polish dialectology as well as at his pioneering role in developing the concept of an ethnolinguistic lexicon. The reviewed study shows Karłowicz as a researcher who perfectly understands the linguistic and cultural realities of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Lithuanian aspirations to construct their own identity, separate from the Polish one. The monograph Jan Karłowicz in the Light of Archival Materials restores this nineteenth‑century researcher with broad humanistic horizons to his proper place and rank in the history of science, not only in linguistics. It provides accurate arguments for re‑evaluating a very critical review of the Lexicon of Polish Dialects, published by Kazimierz Nitsch in 1911. For a long time, this criticism had had a very negative impact on the general assessment of Karłowicz's output by other linguists. All the more, we need to appreciate Maciej Rak's insightful attempt of breaking the aforementioned negative opinion and providing new interpretation of Karłowicz's unpublished works, that can be seen as a valuable heritage of the culture created during the period of Partitions of Poland.},
 type={Recenzje / Book Reviews},
 title={Jan Karłowicz rediscovered},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/121653/PDF-MASTER/2021-RSLW-18-Sawaniewska.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rslaw.2021.138354},
 keywords={Jan Karłowicz, 19th century, unknown archival sources, history of Polish dialectology, history of Polish ethnolinguistics, history of Polish folklore studies, Lithuanian mythology resources, lexicons/dictionaries},
}