A vacuum to be filled. Central and Eastern Europe in the times of ‘geography without the Germans’

Authors

  • Maciej Górny Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warsaw Niemiecki Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.18.010.9330

Keywords:

geography, Geographical Union, Slavic geographical congresses, boycott of the German science

Abstract

This article analyses strategies used by geographers of Central and Eastern Europe, foremost Poland, to improve their international position, in the interwar. The boycott of Germany and its former allies almost until mid-1930s was a challenge to this group and it gradually hindered its development. The most original attempt at overcoming the threat of marginalization were congresses of Slavic geographers organized from 1924. The greatest success, however, came with the 1934 Warsaw congress of the Geographical Union, which was also the occasion for German geographers to fully return to international scholarly exchange.

Author Biography

Maciej Górny, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warsaw Niemiecki Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw

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12-12-2018

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Górny, M. (2018). A vacuum to be filled. Central and Eastern Europe in the times of ‘geography without the Germans’. Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 17, 253–272. https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.18.010.9330

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SCIENCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE