Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz

[1] Albert and his brother Casimir (Kazimieras Kojelavičius-Vijūkas [lt]) were born in the House of Perkūnas in Kaunas (or Romainiai according to other sources) to a poor Lithuanian noble family.

[3] Later he was appointed as a professor of Alma Academia et Universitas Vilnensis Societatis Iesu, teacher of logic, physics, metaphysics and ethic.

The technology of human memory, in Wijuk-Kojałowicz's view, is always uncertain and doubtful, even the written testimony is bound to mutate and to be distorted.

Because of his critical stance towards Stryjkowski's "Kronika..." Wijuk-Kojałowicz revised it so, that it would teach the young not only the history of their country, but also the Latin language.

He replaced Stryjkowski's metaphorical style of historical writing preoccupied with analogy and thereby closer to poetry with a rhetoric focused on the mechanics of telling a linear story.

Kojałowicz was skeptical about the possibility of history written sine ira et studio, without anger and without preconception, without affection and hatred.

In his history, Wijuk-Kojałowicz did not fail to record the continuous rivalry between the Lithuanians and Poles for their rights and privileges and their constant distrust of each other.

Privileges of the whole noble estate must not be applied to those who do not recognize the Catholic religion and do not obey the Pope.In Kojałowicz's works, the nation was, first of all, imagined as a community with common interests and a shared past.