Artykuł ma charakter przyczynkowy, dotyczy ksiąg metrykalnych Kościoła ewangelicko-augsburskiego w Królestwie Polskim. Analizowane zagadnienie to wprowadzenie przepisu nakazującego spisywanie akt języku rosyjskim. Prawo miało obowiązywać od początku 1868 r. (starego stylu), praktyce jednak wielu parafiach wprowadzono je życie z opóźnieniem. W literaturze przedmiotu odnaleźć można jedynie nielic...

Weak institutions, capital scarcity, and risk aversion may motivate the state to lead industrialization in developing economies. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether public-led industries differ systematically from those led by private investors. Using a new dataset of firm establishment from pre-war Japan, I compare the development of industries pioneered by either the government or entrepreneu...

Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962). Pioneer of Japanese folklore studies The Meiji era (1868–1912) pushed Japan towards a modern, industrialized and, most all, positivist state. This plays an important role in shaping the ethnographic (anthropological, folklore) thought country. However, this is only one side coin, medal which, apart from gigantic leap civilization, had reverse – traditional, familiar,...

Katharina de la Durantaye: Erklärung und Wille, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2020. (Jus Privatum; Bd. 241) XVII, 389 S.; Ln.: 99,- €. ISBN 978–3-16–158185–4., 10.1628/acp-2021-0010, Jahrgang 221 (2021) / Heft 1-2, 0003-8997 (1868-7113)

The subject of vaccination and its influence on the prevention of so terrible a disease as small-pox, is one of the greatest importance, and is attracting very general attention both in India and at home, and I think a brief record of the introduction of vaccination into a new country will not be without interest and advantage. The province of Ladak, lying north of the main range of tho Himalay...

243 I magine practising medicine without access to blood transfusions. It was Karl Landsteiner, a 1930 Nobel laureate, who classified human blood into groups based on the presence of naturally occurring agglutinating antibodies, and whose findings eventually established safe transfusion procedures. Prior to his discovery, patients in need of blood received transfusions from animals such as shee...