Schools of the Commission of National Education’s Greater Poland Department

The Commission of National Education created a comprehensive school network, including the Greater Poland Department, consisting of department and subdepartment schools along with loosely connected with them parochial schools, which in its entirety remained under the authority of the Crown Main School. This article presents the history of the Greater Poland Department from the time of the Commission of National Education’s establishment in 1773 until the Commission terminated its operations in this region amid the Partitions of Poland in 1793. This study explores the department school in Poznań, the subdepartment schools in Kalisz, Wschowa, Trzemeszno, Toruń and Międzyrzecz as well as the parochial schools.