Procesy prasowe redaktora „Dziennika Kujawskiego” Józefa Chociszewskiego z lat 1893 – 1896

The 'Dziennik Kujawski' was the most popular national Catholic periodical published in Inowroclaw in the years of 1893-1939. For 46 years, reaching all classes and status groups of the Polish society in Western Kujawy, it popularized the highest values of Polish culture, scientific and technical achievements and reported many important events and issues related to social, political and cultural life of the town, the region, the country and the world. It was one of the essential accomplishments in the development of Polish provincial press in the last decade of the 19th century, as well as the first important Polish paper to establish itself as one of daily newspapers in the area of Wielkopolska. It had its regular readers in Kujawy and Paluki, but also in the Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and even as far as in America and Asia. In 1893-1895 the first editor-in-chief of 'Dziennik Kujawski' was a highly-regarded writer and peasant activist, Jozef Chociszewski. He was taken to court for publishing letters concerning school relations in Lowyn near Pszczew and the events that took place in the school in Gogolinek. In the first case the Prussian judiciary found him guilty of an offence against the Regency of Poznan, imprisoned him for a month and charged with court costs. In the second, it decided that Chociszewski had offended a Protestant teacher and imprisoned him for six months.