Created in 1975, the Pomeranian collection has grown to some 12.4 thousand of primary and secondary sources relating to the area of Northern Poland and the Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), Hanseatic countries and Scandinavia. The Pomeranian reading room maintains sources to studies in: historiography, historical geography, sphragistics with heraldics, numismatics, ethnography and archeology. The collection focuses especially on the history of the Teutonic Knights order, history of cities in the area, biographical sources, among others, on the life and work of Nicolaus Copernicus. The collection is intended for historians, geographers, philologists and art historians who are interested in the political, socio-economic and cultural history of the region. In addition to that, the Pomeranian collection team is responsible for the bibliography of Eastern and Western Pomerania and the Batlic region, since 1995, prepared with collaboration of the Herder-Institut in Marburg. |
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