Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. (actual name: Hieronim Konarski; 30
September 1700 â€" 3 August 1773) was a Polish pedagogue, educational
reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and
precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polishâ€"Lithuanian
Commonwealth.Konarski was born in Żarczyce Duże, Świętokrzyskie
Voivodeship. He studied from 1725 to 1727 at the Collegium Nazarenum
in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric. After that he
travelled through France, Germany and Austria and Poland to broaden
his education.In 1730 he returned to Poland and began work on a new
edition of Polish law, the Volumina legum.From 1736 he taught at the
Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszów. In 1740 he founded the Collegium
Nobilium, an elite Warsaw school for sons of the gentry (szlachta). He
founded the first public-reference library on the European mainland in
1747 in Warsaw. Thereafter he reformed Piarist education in Poland, in
accordance with his educational program, the Ordinationes Visitationis
Apostolicae... (1755). His reforms became a landmark in the
18th-century struggle to modernize the Polish education system.
September 1700 â€" 3 August 1773) was a Polish pedagogue, educational
reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and
precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polishâ€"Lithuanian
Commonwealth.Konarski was born in Żarczyce Duże, Świętokrzyskie
Voivodeship. He studied from 1725 to 1727 at the Collegium Nazarenum
in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric. After that he
travelled through France, Germany and Austria and Poland to broaden
his education.In 1730 he returned to Poland and began work on a new
edition of Polish law, the Volumina legum.From 1736 he taught at the
Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszów. In 1740 he founded the Collegium
Nobilium, an elite Warsaw school for sons of the gentry (szlachta). He
founded the first public-reference library on the European mainland in
1747 in Warsaw. Thereafter he reformed Piarist education in Poland, in
accordance with his educational program, the Ordinationes Visitationis
Apostolicae... (1755). His reforms became a landmark in the
18th-century struggle to modernize the Polish education system.
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