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I think the order of this article should be chronological (oldest on top), not anti-chronological, as per Wikipedia's (may be unwritten) convention. Andries 18:37, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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Education has been of prime interest to Poland's rulers since the early 12th century. The catalog of the library of the Cathedral Chapter in Kraków dating from 1110 shows that Polish scholars already then had access to western European literature. In 1364, King Kazimierz the Great founded the Cracow Academy, which would become one of the great universities of Europe.

[edit] Early Scientists, Educators established in Cracow

The teachers as well as students were German-speakers, from Bohemia, Prussia, Silesia and many other places from Germany. The book Die Deutschen in den Karpatenländern (link below) (The Germans in the Karpatian countries) details the German community of Crakow, the tradesmen, guild members, the scientists, educators. Teachers like Thomas Murner, Johann von Sommerfeld, Georg Schmed, Lorenz Rabe (Laurentius Corvinus, Bartholomäus Stein, Bernhard Feyge, Wenzel Köhler, Michael von Sternberg, Georg Weirauch, Rudolf Baumann (Agricola), Konrad Celtis (Conrad Celtes), Valentin Eck, Sebastian Steinhofer, Benedikt Hesse, Heinrich Bebel, Johann Ysner and many more came to Cracow. Other members of the German community in Crakow born there were Erasmus Beck, Johann Bär (Ursinus), Severin Bone, Andreas Brenner. The list of famous teachers, students and scientists in the Crakow community includes the polymath Nicolaus Copernicus, who studied there, while his sister, married to Bartel Gertner, lived there as well. A number of printers established businesses in Crakow, which aided the education process. The situation was similar at Lemberg. Later Italians arrived as well.

With the establishment of Protestant Universities in Europe, many teachers and students rather attended those.

In 1773 King Stanisław August Poniatowski established the Commission of National Education, the world's first ministry of education.

After the third partition of Poland, in 1795, no Polish state existed.

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