Gimnazjum w Brodach na przełomie XIX i XX wieku we wspomnieniach byłego ucznia

This text is the result of an edition effort undertaken to compile a portion of manuscript fragments containing the memories of Wawrzyniec Dayczak (Dajczak) (1882-1968) – the son of a farmer from the Ternopil region – later a Lviv architect. The presented chapter covers the years of his early youth, spent – in the period 1894-1903 – in Brody, the then-capital of a district, where he attended the local German-language secondary school, named in honour of Crown Prince Rudolf. The ethnic diversity among both teachers and students: Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews (with the latter as the majority), makes it possible to approach the school and the relations within it, as well as the position of the school in the local environment – as a reflection of the general social conditions within what is culturally understood as Eastern Galicia (in its small-town version).