Szczepan Józef Gółkowski

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Szczepan Józef Gółkowski (born December 25, 1787 in Klęczków near Chełmno, August 22, 1871) is a Polish printer, editor and editor of periodicals, educational activist. Curriculum vitae

He studied at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Grudziądz and then studied law at the University of Konigsberg. He did not graduate from the Napoleonic Campaign 1806-1807.

In 1848 he founded the first Polish printing house and bookstore in Chełmno. In 1849 he took over the publishing of the National Nursery, the first in this part of the Polish magazine. It was an organ of the Polish League. Also in 1849 the publication of the second magazine, the Catholic Diocese of Chelmno, began. Due to the restrictive Prussian law on press and associations, the publication of the National School (which became the National Nursery) was suspended in 1850.

Already in October 1850 he began publishing another journal, Nadwiślanin, and was also his editor. The outpost went out in Chełmno until 1866 as the only Polish newspaper in Pomerania.

He also printed Polish calendars and numerous booksellers, mostly religious ones.

The publishing industry faced numerous repressions on the part of the Prussian authorities. In 1861 Golkowski was sentenced to 3 years in prison, the loss of civil rights for 5 years and the loss of printing consul. From prison he was saved from illness and an aged age. After these events, he handed over the printing press and the editorial office of Ignacy Danielewski. Bibliography

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