A brief history of the Faculty

The Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology started its activity on 1 September 1988, after a division of the previous Philology Faculty.
But the traditions of Polish and Classical studies go back to the very beginning of Poznań University: first within the framework of the School of Philosophy (1919), then - in the twenties - the School of Humanities. During the twenty years of the interwar period and after the year 1945 - Poznań University has been an important centre of literary scholarship, literary criticism and linguistics. The present-day research carried out by the particular units of the Faculty comprise a vast range of literary and linguistic disciplines in the sphere of Classical and Polish studies as well as in the sphere of theoretical, comparative and historical aspects of Slavonic literatures and languages.
The Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology consists of the Institute of Polish Philology, the Institute of Classical Philology and the Chair of Slavonic Philology.