Jan Nepomucen Sadowski jako badacz ziem polskich w starożytności

Abstrakt

J.N. Sadowski's (1814-1897) book "Greek and Roman Trade Routes trought the Basins of the Oder, the Vistula, the Dniepr and the Niemen rivers to the Baltic Coast" published in 1876 and in the following year translated into German, made the first consistent attempt of joining the given written and archaeological sources in the research of the Polish lands in Antiquity. The studies on the written sources and the precisely, (sometimes even too precisely), dated imports allowed Sadowski to mark phases of trade constacts betwen the Mediterranean and the Polish lands. He also precisely the trade routes crossing the Polish lands in Antiquity. These last statements are, to a considerable extent, up-to-date. It was not by coincidence that Sadowski chose to study trade routes in prehistory. It was connected with the conviction that the majority of bronze products from central Europe were imported from the south. It led to stress the role of the Roman trade, as well as the Etruscan, Greek and to some extent Phoenician. Sadowski was also occupied with the present economic problems. He was a jurnalist studying economic problems. Amongst others he wrote a work about corn trade routes. His interest in contemporary problems led Sadowski pursve the economic problems in prehistory.