Historya Szkoły Miejskiej przy Kościele Akademickim S° Floriana na Kleparzu w Krakowie w roku 1187 założonej – zapoznana kronika szkolna

This article discusses the underrated and overlooked chronicle called The History of City School Near Academic Church of St. Fliorian…, which was preserved in the Primary School nr 7 in Kraków on 8 Spasowskiego St. and found years ago in the school’s collection by Szymon K. Kordylewski. Article is divided into: Introduction, The history of the parochial school of St. Florian, The iconography of the parochial school of St. Florian, The structure of the parochial school of St. Florian, The curriculum of the parochial school of St. Florian, The teachers, The teacher’s salaries, The students, The pupils, The important events from the school’s life and various initiatives. It contains an index of the teachers and students (in selection) as well as illustrations and photographs from family collections, since the ancestors of the authors of the article were teachers who also directed the school. The author of The History of the City School… is Tomasz Rudnicki, the teacher directing the school of St. Florian, who also transcribed a number of documents regarding the school and its teachers and pupils. The text was created between 1870 and 1871 commanded by the Governor’s Commission [sic!] from January 2, 1864, announced in the School Circular. In the years 1873–1900 The History of the City School… was being supplemented on an ongoing basis on blank cards (p. 31–62, 91–109) by eight different people, among whom it was possible to identify, besides that of Tomasz Rudnicki (died 1882), the handwriting of the subsequent school principals: Aleksander Pająk (1834–1899) and Karol Drozdowski (1855–1923). The manuscript, presumably in 1900, was bound in leather in the bookbinding workshop of R.D. Horowitz in Kraków, with embossed, gold-plated inscription: The History of the School near St. Florian in Kleparz in Kraków. This manuscript is an important source for the history of primary schools in Kraków during the period of partitions as well as the history of education and the teacher’s position.