European Professional and Scientific Career Paths of the Interwar Professors of the Faculties of Theology at the Jagiellonian University and the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov (The Period Before Obtaining the Professorial Chair)

Abstract

The article analyzes the biographies of 39 professors of the Faculties of Theology at the Jagiellonian University and the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov. The particular focus is on their scientific and professional activities beyond the Polish lands. The first stage of foreign scientific travel often came with the choice of the alma mater. The vast majority of the professors chose foreign universities either as the only one or as one of more educational destinations. The same goes for the place where they decided to obtain a doctorate. The most popular choices for university studies and doctorates were universities in Rome (especially the Pontifical Gregorian University) and the universities in Innsbruck and Munich. Rome, in particular, seems to have been an obvious choice, given that the professors were all clergymen. The number of professional foreign stays was not as high as the number of scientific ones, though such elements are present in some of the biographies.