Tautinio Vilniaus universiteto klausimas lietuvių politikoje (1915 m. ruduo-1919 m. žiema)
Vilniaus pedagoginis universitetas |
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2009 |
Remiantis oficialiais dokumentais ir to meto publikacijomis, straipsnyje aptariamas politikų istorikų indėlis kuriant lietuvišką Vilniaus universitetą nuo 1915 m. rudens iki 1919 m. pradžios bei analizuojamos jų pažiūros ir koncepcijos šiais esminiais klausimais: 1. Kodėl pirmiausia reikėjo kurti lietuvišką Vilniaus universitetą? 2. Koks turi būti universitetas: pasaulietinis ar katalikiškas? 3. Ar universitetas tik lietuviams, ar atviras tautinėms, ar religinėms mažumoms? 4. Ar universitetas su savivaldos teisėmis, ar su ribota autonomija? 5. Kokia kalba turi vykti studijos universitete? 6. Kam reikėjo steigti Sociologijos fakultetą?
The article deals with the activities of politicians- historians, namely Mykolas Biržiška, Jonas Yčas, Petras Klimas and Augustinas Voldemaras to establish Vilnius National University from autumn, 1915, to the beginning of 1919. The analysis itself is based on the attitudes and concepts of the above mentioned politicians-historians, and it concentrates on the following questions: 1. Why was it necessary to establish Lithuanian Vilnius University? 2. What kind of university was it supposed to be – Catholic or secular? 3. Should the university be Lithuanian or open to national or confessional minorities? 4. What kind of university was it to be – autonomous or with a limited autonomy? 5. What should the language of studies at the university be? 6. Was it necessary to establish the faculty of Sociology? The author distinguishes two different concepts concerning the establishment of Lithuania’s national university. Historians Biržiška and Klimas favoured a secular, autonomous Vilnius University open to national or confessional minorities, whereas historians Voldemaras and Yčas favoured a national Catholic Vilnius University with limited rights of self-rule. The above mentioned historians were united in two respects: firstly, realizing the actual situation, they agreed that studies at the restored Lithuanian Vilnius University should not be conducted exclusively in Lithuanian and should tolerate teaching in foreign languages as well; secondly, realizing that for the independent Lithuanian state its human capital was educated people, they were striving for a university that corresponded in its standards to those of West European universities of those times. [...]