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A new paradigm for ecclesiastical studies according to Pope Francis’ encyclical Veritatis Gaudium

Marek Andrzej Żmudziński

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 87-105 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12578

Keywords theology science university dialogue faith religion culture

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The pontificate of Pope Francis, both in documents and in practice, takes on a pastoral character, emphasizing the evangelizing dimension. The encyclical Veritatis gaudium likewise presents the educational and academic mission of the Church from the same perspective. This paper provides a presentation of the Pope’s postulates understood as a new paradigm for Church education, resulting from a new cultural and social context. Pope Francis’ project is set in the more than fifty-year perspective of the reforms introduced by the Second Vatican Council, in particular Sapientia christiana, the document which has been governing the activities of theological faculties since 1979. Four criteria that ecclesial studies should demonstrate are indicated: a) the Christocentric kerygma building the ecclesial community, with an option for the poor, b) encounter and dialogue, characterized by authentic interaction on the level of religions and cultures, c) inter- and transdisciplinarity, which provide a tool for linking the academic achievements of all disciplines in the perspective of the transcendent Christian revelation, d) integration of academic centers which practice ecclesiastical studies and their collaboration with institutions of different religious and cultural traditions, with a view to an adequate diagnosis of global world problems and their resolution.

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Marek Andrzej Żmudziński

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Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

There’s life in the old dog yet. Perspectives for natural law thinking in future moral theology

Andrzej Dominik Kuciński

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 107-121 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12791

Keywords natural law moral theology autonomy nature postmodernism Vatican II.

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For many ethicists, natural law no longer seems to be relevant as a model for the motivation of norms. At the same time, moral theology after Vatican II strives for renewal which, on the one hand, distances itself from radical autonomous thinking and, on the other hand, overcomes certain narrownesses of the past. It happens in the context of a cultural upheaval between modernity and postmodernity, in which universalistic ethical concepts are regarded critically anyway. Nevertheless, the increasing ethical challenges of the present, especially those in the bioethical field, call for universally valid solutions in the globalized world. In this context, natural law thinking can and should be used again. However, it would have to be suitably presented. An ethical understanding beyond cultural and temporal boundaries is possible, but requires an agreement on the binding character of human nature.

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Andrzej Dominik Kuciński

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Kongregation für die Glaubenslehre, Rom

Some arguments of benedict xvi for the future of theology

Ks. Józef Warzeszak

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 67-85 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12569

Keywords Benedict XVI theology science future

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The author of the article presents the arguments quoted by Benedict XVI in his speeches attesting that theology has a future. The future of theology is related to the future of faith since faith needs theology and theology needs faith. Faith, on the other hand, is a response to the longing for truth, goodness, and beauty inherent in human nature, which can only be found in God. The question about God is the key question which depends on the discovery of the meaning of life and the world. Theology along with philosophy – obviously not a positivistic one that resigns from the study of the transcendence of being – searches for the full truth about human being and maintains human sensitivity to the full truth. Theology, as a fully-fledged science among other sciences, indicates that scientific truth participates in the Divine Truth, originates from the same source, from Logos, whose work is creation. When nowadays the search for truth is abandoned or ignored, theology discovers the resulting threats to the European culture. Theology teaches about God who spoke to the people, and not about someone who would only be a postulation of human thought. Therefore, the primary task of theology is to penetrate the revealed Word. Thus, theology developed on the basis of the principles and norms resulting from the Revelation of faith has a future, and is not solely based on criteria and norms common within other sciences, or based on patterns taken from the humanities.

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Ks. Józef Warzeszak

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Akademia Katolicka w Warszawie

The critical functions of theology for the future

Ks. Jacek Kempa

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 49-66 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12552

Keywords methodology of theology theology and science critical functions of theology

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In the search for the critical functions of theology, we can find a growing number of dilemmas, which come from the theology itself and from the modern knowledge about the world, which theology has to face, not only offering expected answers, but also formulating its own Christian doctrine proper for contemporary times and consistent with the Tradition of faith. The only way to present such a broad and difficult problem in a short paper is through a general perspective. The key to the systematization of the problem is by observing that the tasks of theology can be seen from four different perspectives, according to the distinction ad extra – ad intra. Astrong emphasis is put on the encounter between theology and science. The attempt to make predictions about the future is based on analysis of the contemporary situation in theology and on the extrapolation of existing trends for the near future.

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Ks. Jacek Kempa

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Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

Polish perspectives on mariology in context

Ks.Kazimierz Pek

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 123-136 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12554

Keywords Mariology in context Theology in context Theology in Poland

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Conducting Mariology in context is one of the original elements of contemporary Polish theology. Its methodological and theological justification is through the mystery of the Triune God and not the constantly changing culture. Researching the image of God in Mariological doctrine is one manner of verifying theological hypotheses or conclusions. The image of Mary is dependent on the image of God. Whenever the history of salvation was perceived as the work of the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit, Mary was presented as a participant (or a recipient) and a witness of the activities of God. The more Divine Providence was valued, the more frequent was the encouragement to worship it as Mother of Jesus did in her Magnificat. Some theses from the analyzed sources are especially inspirational. We need to notice the invitations to reflect on the mediatorship of Jesus (per Jesum ad Mariam) and the Holy Spirit (per Spiritum ad Mariam) as well as reflect on the soteriological model of receptio.

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Ks.Kazimierz Pek

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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II w Lublinie

Community of the holy trinity and a complicity of the diabolic triad

Dariusz Kowalczyk

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 175-193 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12574

Keywords Trinity diabolical triad Apocalypse community corrupt complicity

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Jesus has definitely conquered the world, but our history is continuous. The one who is called in the Bible as the Devil, Satan, and Deceiver of all the earth (cf. Rev 12:9), though already defeated, is still at work in the world. The essence of Satan’s action is to pretend that he is the true Savior of man. In Revelation 13 there is a dragon (the devil) that summons
the first beast and the second beast (a false prophet) and thus they form the diabolical triad. The well-known saying that the devil is simia Dei could be paraphrased and at the same time clarified that the devil is simia Trinitatis. In fact, Satan imitates and mocks, like the monkey, the Holy Trinity to deceive people. When tempting Jesus in the desert, the goal of the evil spirit was not only to tempt Jesus, the Incarnate Son, but the Trinity as a whole. The devil tries to challenge the Trinitarian relations, i.e., the mutual relationship of the Son and the Father in the Holy Spirit. This is the reason why Jesus defies the attacks of the devil not referring to His Divinity but by pointing to the Father and His will. The juxtaposition of the dynamics of the action of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, with the dynamics of the action of the triad, the dragon and his two beasts, allows us to capture the essential features of, on the one hand, the community in the Trinity, and on the other hand, the corrupt synergy of the triad assigning the Divine features to themselves.

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Dariusz Kowalczyk

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Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma

A Fragment of Text by Gilbert de la Porrée on a Binding from Recycled Parchment in the Collections of the Kórnik Library

Tomasz Jasiński

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38 | 21-36

Keywords Gilbert de la Porrée bindings of early printed books palaeography book script rhythmics

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The Kórnik Library holds many early printed books from the former church of the Unity of the Brethren in Leszno, including an adligat, i.e. a volume combining three works: one by John Calvin and two by Matthias Flacius. This artefact was bound in recycled parchment inscribed with text by an eminent philosopher/scholastic logician, Gilbert de la Porrée; it is a fragment of Commentarius ad Epistolas S. Pauli.
The author of the article compares the text of the Commentary from the parchment cover to other hand-written copies of this work. On the sidelines of reflections concerning the authorship of the treatises attributed to Gilbert, he points out that the research in this scope has not yet taken into account an analysis of the rhythmics. The text which survived on the cover has the form of rhythmic prose – a different one than that in one of Gilbert’s letters.

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Tomasz Jasiński

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Biblioteka Kórnicka
Wydział Historii UAM, Poznań

Peninsula Szyja in Bnin – A Witness to History

Hanna Kóčka-Krenz

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38 | 9-19

Keywords Bnin Wielkopolska Lusatian culture Middle Ages defensive settlements dwellings on mounds

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The peninsula projecting into Lake Bnińskie (and called Szyja by archaeologists) was the site of a long-standing settlement three times. At the turn of the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age, people of the Lusatian culture used the natural defensive settlement in its southern part (which at the time was an inshore island). The second period of intensive settlement of the peninsula was the 940s, when a strongly fortified early Piast stronghold was erected – it was used (with a break of 160 years) until the beginnings of the 13th c. In the mid-13th c., a dwelling on a mound was erected at the base of the peninsula to become home to castellans until Bnin was granted a municipal charter based on the Magdeburg rights between 1386 and 1395.

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Hanna Kóčka-Krenz

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Wydział Archeologii UAM, Poznań

Cyrillic Cryptograms in a Latin Text – A Secret or a Joke? A Book of Abstracts of Lawsuits Concerning the Boundaries of Estates in Greater Poland in the 15th–17th Century in the Collections of the Kórnik Library

Krzysztof Pietkiewicz

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38 | 37-58

Keywords Cyrillic script Russian palaeography Greater Poland in the 17th c. books of the subcamerarius’court lawsuits concerning the boundaries of estates in Greater Poland

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The holdings of the Kórnik Library include a book of abstracts of lawsuits concerning the boundaries of estates in Greater Poland in the 15th–17th century, written in Latin. Its presumed author, the otherwise unknown Piotr Biernacki, had the ability to write in both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabet. This article focuses on the reading and the palaeographic and linguistic analysis of several Latin sentences, one heading and more than 20 margin notes written in the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic handwriting found in the book is a Russian skoropis used in Ukrainian areas of Poland in the 17th century. When writing the Latin text with the Cyrillic alphabet, the author utilised the Polish language of the time in the reading of Latin. The cryptograms found in the book have a technical/informative nature and do not contribute any significant information to the text. In combination with the fact that the Cyrillic alphabet was not at all used in Greater Poland, the above suggests that the author was playing with the reader, who was thus forced to look for the meaning of the incomprehensible text.

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Krzysztof Pietkiewicz

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Wydział Historii UAM, Poznań

Spis treści

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38

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French Binding à la Duseuil with the Monogram Supralibros of John III Sobieski in the Collections of the Kórnik Library

Arkadiusz Wagner

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38 | 59-86

Keywords John III Sobieski Johann Jakob Rollos Toussaint de Forbin-Janson baroque bookbinding à la Duseuil (à la Du Seuil) bindings à l’ancienne lines filigree decoration fers pointillés monogram supralibros royal monogram marbled paper

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This paper is devoted to a precious sobiescianum from the Kórnik Library’s collection of manuscripts – the binding of a hand-written panegyric with emblems by Johann Jakob Rollos, dedicated to King John III Sobieski. This piece of bookbinding art is marked by its restrained although exquisite decoration centred around the monarch’s supralibros in the form of a monogram under a royal crown, encircled by palm branches. First, the binding is analysed in terms of its materials, technique, and decoration. Conclusions from the analysis were used to situate the work in the context of French 17th-c. bookbinding, which led to the conclusion that it is a classic example of an à la Duseuil (à la Du Seuil) binding, which has numerous counterparts in the output of French bookbinders of the Baroque era. The genesis of the form of the supralibros is then analysed, indicating French sample design books presenting inter alia designs of monograms. Analogies between the Sobieski’s supralibros and the French supralibros with a monogram or an escutcheon under a crown and encircled by palm branches or similar motifs turned out to be significant. Attention was also devoted to the genesis of the form of the marbled paper from which the endpapers were made. Finally, it was attempted to situate the book in the context of John III Sobieski’s book collection, from which only a handful of volumes have managed to survive until our own times. Attention was also paid to the issue of the royal monograms in Poland in the last years of the 17th century and the first decades of the 18th century.

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Arkadiusz Wagner

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Instytut Badań Informacji i Komunikacji UMK, Toruń

The Beginnings of the Evangelical Parish in Bnin in the Light of New Documents from the Collection of the Kórnik Library

Wojciech Lis

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38 | 105-129

Keywords Bnin Protestant community 18th century pastors church source edition

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In 2020 the Kórnik Library’s collections were supplemented with new documents connected with the beginnings of the Protestant parish in Bnin. The present article presents the time of formation and the first years of functioning of evangelical community in Bnin, which was one of the biggest communities in Greater Poland (excluding Poznań) for more over 150 years. After a brief introduction, the following part describes upon mentioned sources the establishing of community and construction of the first Lutheran church in Bnin with its buildings. Finally, the annex contains biographies of the first five pastors in Bnin and source edition of these documents.

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Wojciech Lis

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Wydział Historyczny UAM, Poznań

Contract for the Erection of the Castle in Kórnik from 1426

Korneliusz Kaczor

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38 | 87-103

Keywords castle in Kórnik in the 15th c. defensive castles 15th-c. wooden architecture chirograph medieval carpentry

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This paper presents a new edition and translation of the contract for the erection of the castle in Kórnik that was concluded in 1426 by and between a chancellor of the Poznań cathedral chapter, Mikołaj z Górki, owner of the Kórnik estate, and a Poznań carpenter Niklos (Nicholas). It is the oldest known document of the history of the first, medieval wooden castle. Written down in Latin, it has survived in the book of the Poznań Consistory. It has a special value as a source of information, but it is also unique from the point of view of diplomatics as the so-called chirograph (a document marked by its characteristic way in which it is written down and its manner of authentication). The contract is not only a first-rate source for research into the history of wooden and defensive architecture in late medieval Poland, but also, in view of the Polish words used to explain Latin terminology in the text, can be considered a memorial to the Polish language of the past. The four German words have a similar value, too.

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Korneliusz Kaczor

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Front pages

Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej | 2021 | tom 38

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Proclaiming the Divine Logos to the Man of the Future
. = Głoszenie boskiego logosu człowiekowi przyszłości

David Torrijos-Castrillejo

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 137-154 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12456

Keywords new evangelization Christian doctrine communication faith and reason encounter

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This paper studies the cooperation of theology in the new evangelization in societies of ancient Christian tradition which are suffering an advanced process of secularization. It begins with Spain, where a recent debate on the influence of Christian intellectuals on social life suggests the ineffectiveness of ecclesiastical resources in transmitting the rich Catholic doctrinal heritage. The author then deals with the idiosyncrasy of contemporary man, which lies near one of the immediate future’s of man: an uprooted subject who does not believe that life has any meaning, deeply marked by emotivism and attaches little significance to truth. The theology of tomorrow cannot feed this emotivism but must be proactive in its own way. The proclamation of the Gospel is not different from the exposition of the Church’s doctrine. To detach evangelization from the teaching of Christian doctrine cannot help the experience with Christ. In order to succeed in transmitting this doctrine by making it suggestive, theologians should work together with experts in communication.

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David Torrijos-Castrillejo

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Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid

Issue of the boundaries between good and evil in theological-moral discourse
. = Kwestia granic między dobrem a złem w dyskursie teologicznomoralnym

René Balák

Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN | 2021 | Tom 16 | 155-173 | DOI: 10.31743/snt.12639

Keywords good evil boundaries conscience ethical norm moral theology bioethics

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Observing current trends in moral theology, especially in the field of bioethics, has long raised both the methodological and meritorious problem of obscuring or even removing the boundaries between good and evil. Divergence and contradiction have become a strange scientific standard in theological-moral discourse in the derivation of Hegel’s synthesis on fundamental moral questions. Depositum fidei morale, which is based on the Decalogue, Lex aeterna, and lex naturalis, seems to be giving way to post-Christian Wittgenstein language-games, in which the clear line between good and evil (including truth and falsehood), determined by the transcendent Authority of God, has been relativized. The reflection of the relationship between the norm and conscience, as well as the relationship between good and evil, in the light of the Thomistic philosophical-theological patrimony, seeks to point to the need of accepting an adequate logical re-examination of the ethical analysis of a human act. Without this, it is impossible to continue not only in Traditio, but also in finding a universal reference point for distinguishing between good and evil in the complicated world of contemporary bioethics, which responds to revolutionary biotechnologies in the field of biomedicine.

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René Balák

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Piešťany, Slovakia

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Assessment of the possibility of using waste from agri-food processing for fertilization purposes

Małgorzata Krasowska Małgorzata Kowczyk-Sadowy

Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1 | 41-47 | DOI: 10.24425/sq.2022.140884

Keywords waste agri-food processing fertilizing properties

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In order to assess the possibility of using waste from agri-food processing for fertilization, residues in the form of apple pomace, carrot root, onion husks and dried nettle were selected for the tests. The research material came from food plants located in north-eastern Poland. In selected waste, the pH value, dry matter content, organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and carbon were determined. It was found that apple pomace, carrot root and onion husk were acidic and dried nettle was alkaline. The nitrogen content in the tested waste ranged from 0.61 to 2.29%, phosphorus from 0.07 to 0.55%, and potassium from 0.19 to 3.72%. Based on the results obtained, it was found that the examined post-production residues are characterized by good fertilizer properties. However, it should be remembered that fertilizers or soil improvers must meet a number of requirements and above all, they must be safe for the environment.

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Małgorzata Krasowska

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Małgorzata Kowczyk-Sadowy

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Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering and Environmental Management, Bialystok University of Technology, 45E Wiejska Str., 15-351 Białystok, Poland

Plant communities in drainage ditches – conditions, characteristics and environmental functions

Aleksander Kiryluk

Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1 | 31-40 | DOI: 10.24425/sq.2021.136834

Keywords habitat invasive species valley ecosystems diversity of flora environmental valorization

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Ditches and drainage canals are an important element in the post-bog meadows. Their basic function is to regulate air-water relations in ecosystems, mainly in agrocenoses. The environmental functions of ditches and canals consist of maintaining a large diversity of flora and fauna species due to high humidity of these ecosystems. The study of plant communities in the ditches in the post-bog meadows habitat of the Supraśl Dolna valley structure in 2010–2020 was carried out. There were 23–27 species of plants in the ditches. Species diversity did not change significantly during this period, while changes in individual species’ coverage and viability were found. The species were classified into two rush communities: reed rush ( Phragmitetum australis) and rush ( Phalaridetum arundinaceae). As a result of the lack of maintenance of the ditches, an invasive species of flapped barbed ( Echinocystis lobata) was found. The natural valorization carried out by the Oświt method showed that plant communities in the drainage ditches are in the lowest valorization classes.

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Aleksander Kiryluk

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Department of Technology in Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, BialystokUniversity of Technology, Wiejska 45E Str., 15-351 Białystok, Poland

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Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1

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Editorial

Elżbieta Skorbiłowicz

Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1

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Elżbieta Skorbiłowicz

Assessment of PAH content in soil and aboveground parts of Lolium perenne L. next to the communication arteries of the urban agglomeration

Marzena Ewa Smolewska Małgorzata Krasowska Jolanta Piekut Maciej Smolewski Ewelina Bagińska

Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1 | 5-13 | DOI: 10.24425/sq.2022.140881

Keywords PAHs urban soil Lolium perenne L. urban grasses

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The research on the content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil and grass ( Lolium perenne L.) was carried out on samples collected in the city of Białystok, in north-eastern Poland. The test samples came from green belts in the vicinity of communication routes, differentiated in terms of the surrounding buildings and infrastructure and characterized by a different car traffic intensity. The highest total concentration of all sixteen PAHs in soil and grass samples was found near a large intersection at Nicholas Copernicus Street, one of the most important communication routes connecting two parts of the city. In the aboveground parts of the studied grass samples, benzo[a]pyrene was the most abundant, its content ranging from 53.8 μg/kg DM up to 91.7 μg/kg DM. On the other hand, in soil samples, much higher benzo[a]pyrene content was found, and the dominance of this compound was observed in almost every measurement location. Based on the obtained results, it was found that car traffic is a significant source of PAH emissions to the urban soil environment and urban greenery. The squares and green belts located along communication routes and intersections are the most exposed to pollution.

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Marzena Ewa Smolewska

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Małgorzata Krasowska

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Jolanta Piekut

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Maciej Smolewski

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Ewelina Bagińska

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Faculty Chemical Laboratory, Bialystok University of Technology, 45E Wiejska Str., 15-351 Białystok, Poland
Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering and Environmental Management, Bialystok University of Technology, 45E Wiejska Str., 15-351 Białystok, Poland
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, 45E Wiejska Str., 15-351 Białystok, Poland

Identification of pollution sources in the Narew River catchment using multivariate statistical methods

Piotr Ofman

Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1 | 23-30 | DOI: 10.24425/sq.2022.140883

Keywords Narew River catchment pollution sources identification cluster analysis

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The aim of the statistical analyses carried out was to identify similarities and to point out differences between the various tributaries of the Narew River, to identify the factors and processes responsible for the transformations occurring in the aquatic environment and finally, to identify the main sources of pollution in the river catchment. For the purposes of statistical analysis, the results of studies conducted as part of diagnostic monitoring by the General Inspectorate for Environmental Protection in 2017–2018 were used. The studies included 8 measurement points located directly on the Narew River and 17 points located on its selected left and right tributaries. Analysis of the collected results indicates that the chemical condition of the water in the Narew catchment is assessed as being poor. This observation may be due to the fact that the Narew catchment is mainly used for agricultural purposes and, in addition, there is a relatively large number of potential anthropogenic sources. As part of the analysis, two potential sources of pollution affecting water quality in the Narew catchment were identified, which include surface run-off and treated wastewater inflow.

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Piotr Ofman

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Bialystok University of Technology, Department of Technology in Environmental Engineering,15-351 Białystok, Wiejska 45E Str., Poland

Heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in leachates from autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion as a potential threat to the environment in north-eastern Poland

Dariusz Boruszko Ada Wojciula

Studia Quaternaria | 2022 | vol. 39 | No 1 | 15-22 | DOI: 10.24425/sq.2022.140882

Keywords heavy metals biodegradation polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons leachates autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion

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This paper presents the concentrations of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and heavy metals in leachates from the autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion (ATAD). The leachates from ATAD installations (Dąbrowa Białostocka, Hajnówka, Pisz, Olecko, Giżycko, Wysokie Mazowieckie) located in Poland were tested. The concentrations of PAHs in samples from Pisz, Giżycko, Wysokie Mazowieckie and Hajnówka were similar to those in industrial wastewater. The cluster analysis confirmed that in sites with a higher polyethylene (p.e.) input from the industrial sector, the leachates were more contaminated with PAH compounds. In samples from Dąbrowa Białostocka, Olecko, Pisz and Hajnówka, the heavy fraction of PAHs compounds prevailed over the light fraction. Concentrations of heavy metals in leachates from ATAD varied. The Ward’s method isolated the wastewater treatment plant in Giżycko. The p.e. from the industrial sector was the highest for this facility. Also, the samples from ATAD had the highest total concentration of heavy metals (5.87 mg/l). The leachates from ATAD are returned to biological systems of municipal sewage treatment plants, where they can be combined into more toxic compounds. Biological wastewater treatment processes do not ensure the removal of PAHs and heavy metals from the wastewater. As a result, harmful compounds can get into the water or ground, polluting the environment.

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Dariusz Boruszko

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Ada Wojciula

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Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences,15-351 Białystok, Wiejska 45E, Poland

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