Aktywność narodowo-niepodległościowa Jana Gwalberta Pawlikowskiego (do 1921 roku)

This article is the first in Polish historiography to attempt to show the political activity of Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski. Pawlikowski was a member of the Galician intellectual elite. He was a well-known economist, columnist, literary historian, cultural patron, climber, pioneer of nature conservation, but also a politician. Throughout his life he was consistently associated with the movement of the National Democracy as many associations, organizations and banks (e.g. Galician Economic Association, Land Reclamation Bank, Parcel Bank, Agricultural Wheel Association, Organization of National Unity, Society Poland). He sat on the Central Committee The National League, co-organized the National Democratic Party in Galicia (in the years 1907–1914 he was the president), sat in the General Council of the People’s and National Union. He participated directly in the most important political events in Eastern Galicia, and after 1918 he became actively involved in public activity in 2nd Polish Republic.