Gdańskie transpozycje

Abstract

Nowadays, in humanities there is a strong tendency to create specific biographies. Mentioned opuses are not focused on well-known people but on famous cities, which are considered as still developing and changing places. Cities consist of different elements and phenomena like architecture, culture, economy and literature. This new way of creating biographies was shown by a German author Peter Oliver Loew. In his book, Loew presented Gdańsk as a strong and free city, which did not lose its identity and functioned like a Hanseatic polis.

Keywords

• transformation
• identity
• economy
• Gdańsk
• biography