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writtenincollaborationwiththeReverendWojciechA.Szweykowski,
concerningtheneedtoestablishauniversityintheCongressKingdom.
TeSchoolofLawandSchoolofMedicine,bothinstituteddur-
ingtheNapoleoniceratheformerinMay1808andthelatterinau-
tumn18094wereimportantantecedentsoftheUniversity.Franciszek
KsawerySzaniawski,whotranslatedtheNapoleonicCodeintoPolish,is
believedtohaveestablishedtheSchoolofLaw.Onlysomeoftheclasses
inlawwereheldintheKazimierzowskiPalace[namedafterKingJan
Kazimierz),whichsoonbecamethemainUniversitybuilding;theothers
wereheldintheSaskiPalace.TeMedicalSchoolwaslocatednexttoSt.
John’sCathedral,at63JezuickaStreet.5StanisławStaszicwasappointed
ChairmanoftheFacultyCouncil.Tomeettheneedsoftheprofessors
andstudentsofmedicine,in1811aBotanicGardenwaslaidoutclose
totheKazimierzowskiPalacewhich,in1818,wasmovedtoaplotad-
jacenttotheRoyalŁazienkipark,asiteitoccupiestothisday.6Both
SchoolsintimetransformedintotwoimportantUniversityfaculties
weresetuptotraintheadministrativeandmedicalpersonnelneededfor
theday-to-dayfunctioningoftheDuchyofWarsaw,whichwasthenstill
battlingfiercelytodefenditsborders.MaurycyMochnacki,whoseties
withtheUniversitymusthavebeenweak,consideringhisbanishmentin
1822,wroteinhisPowstanienarodupolskiegowroku1830i1831[Te
RiseofthePolishNationintheyears1830and1831]:KTeUniversity
ofWarsawcouldnotbeasimportantforgeneraledificationinPoland
astheCentralSchoolinVilniuswas[ł],theWarsawschoolwasan
institutionwhichsuppliedthecountrywithadministrativeandjudicial
ofcialsratherthananacademicorpoliticalbody”.7Tisopinion,if
notentirelyaccurate,demonstratestowhatextenttheFacultyofLaw
wasalreadyadecisiveelementinthewaytheUniversitywasperceived
anditsimportancewithintheUniversity’sstructure,whichcontinuesto
thisday.Inanotherpartofhisbook,Mochnackiadmitted,thuscon-
tradictingtheformerview:KWarsawistheheartofoureducation,from
whenceitsraysenlightenthewholeofPoland.”
InhisPlanedukacjipublicznejwKsięstwieWarszawskimz1810
roku[PlanforpubliceducationintheDuchyofWarsawin1810],Staszic
suggestedsettingupaCentralSchoolinWarsawwithfivefaculties:Law,
Administration,Philosophy,LiteratureandMedicine.Afullcourseof
studyineachfacultywastotakethreeyears.TeFacultyofLiterature
wastoalsocompriseKtheFacultyofFineArtsunderoneDean”.8Tefact
thatAntoniBrodowskiwassenttostudyinParismayhavebeenlinked
totheplanstoestablishsuchafaculty.Tescholarshipforhisstudies,
whichweretotakeseveralyears,wasfundedbytheDuchy’sChamber
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