Ossolineum

The Ossoliński National Library Breslau (Polish Zakad Narodowy in. Ossolinskich, ZNiO ), short Ossolineum, has its headquarters in Matthias pin in Wroclaw (Poland).

It was founded by its founder, Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński as a research institute in the then Austro-Hungarian Lviv in 1817. In 1828, the product derived from the private library of Ossoliński Institute, which in 1827 began work in a publishing house is connected. Until 1918 it was in the time of k.k. Monarchy a center of Polish research.

The Ossolineum founded for the purpose of collection of printed works, manuscripts and prints to Polish subjects was significantly expanded its holdings in 1823 by the inclusion of the library of Count Lubomirski. Other private collections supplemented the stocks.

1947 pulled the Ossolineum due to the boundary changes in the Baroque Matthias pin on the Oder in Wrocław to. Since 1953, the collection is administered by the Polish Academy of Sciences.