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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Ossolineum or Zakad Narodowy im. Ossoliskich (ZNiO, National Ossoliski Institute) a meritorious department for Polish science and culture (until 1939 it combined a Library, Publishing House and the Lubomirski Museum), which was founded for the Polish Nation in 1817 by Józef Maksymilian Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Ossolineum or Zakad Narodowy im. Ossoliskich (ZNiO, National Ossoliski Institute) a meritorious department for Polish science and culture (until 1939 it combined a Library, Publishing House and the Lubomirski Museum), which was founded for the Polish Nation in 1817 by Józef Maksymilian Ossoliski, and was opened in 1827 in Lviv. It was one of the most important Polish culture centres, since it had an extremely rich library collection, which was the second in the country when it comes to its size after the Jagiellonian Library. Incomes form the land estates of its founder, managed for life by its curators, became the livelihood of the Institute. Lviv's edifice of Ossolineum Since the foundation of the department and up to 1945, the National Ossoliski Institute was located in a former cloister and in the Church of the Calced Carmelite Nuns on 2 Ossoliscy Street in Lviv. After the first partition of Poland and the dissolution of many cloisters by Joseph II, the Austrian emperor, the cloister building fell into ruin. The restoration of the building was the work of Józef Bem. In 1823 the Museum Lubomirskich was attached to the Ossoliski Institute, which was established by prince Henryk Lubomirski. Ossolineum in Galicia was under Austrian rule concentrating the Polish intellectual movement and was one of the most important centres of Polish culture in the annexation and Germanization. During that time there were many persecutions in the form of police searches and arrests of employees of the centre. In accordance with the intention of its founder it became one of the most important research centres on history and Polish literature due to the fact that it manages one of the biggest book collections in Poland as well as a large collection of manu. More: Books, , Ossoli-ski-Family~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<