Historia narodu polskiego

Cover page of the 1803 edition of volume III of his History of the Polish Nation

Historia narodu polskiego (History of the Polish Nation) is a multi-volume historical work by Polish-Lithuanian bishop Adam Naruszewicz, considered the first modern, scholarly history of Poland, and a highly influential work on the early Polish historiography. It also represented the viewpoints of monarchism and the King of Poland, Stanislaus Augustus, in the intense political debates of the second half of the 18th century Poland.

Mostly written in the years 1776–1779 during the era of Polish Enlightenment and published in the subsequent decades, this ambitious project, inspired by the works of Voltaire, was unfinished, as Naruszewicz only completed the volumes covering the times up to the end of the Piast dynasty in the 14th century.[1]: 22–29 

  1. ^ Stanley, John D. (2006-01-01). "Adam Naruszewicz (1733-1796)". In Brock, Peter; Stanley, John D.; Wróbel, Piotr (eds.). Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-9036-2.