Biografistyka Pedagogiczna Rok 7 (2022) nr 1 issn 2543–6112; e-issn 2543–7399 doi: 10.36578/bp.2022.07.01 Mikołaj Brenk* Ks. Edward Kozłowski (1888–1940) – działacz społeczny, dyrektor Katolickiej Szkoły Społecznej w Poznaniu Fr. Edward Kozłowski (1888–1940) – Social Activist, Director of the Catholic Social School in Poznań Abstract: Priest Edward Kozłowski was one of the Catholic social activists of the inter- war period in Poznań. He grew up and shaped his ideological attitudes even in the con- ditions of the strugle for independence, including the joining of the lands of Greater Poland to the reborn state. In 1919, he moved to Poznań, where he lived until his arrest by the Germans in 1939. He was the director of the Union of Catholic Polish Work- ers’ Societies of the Archdiocese of Gniezno and Poznań, secretary of the Social Coun- cil at the Primate of Poland, editor of the periodicals Robotnik [Worker] and Przegląd Społeczny [Social Review] in which he published his texts on, among others, the social teaching of the Church. He was a co-inspirator and director of the Catholic Social School in Poznań, operating between 1927 and 1939, which, within a few years, acquired the sta- tus of a university and educated a group of professionally and ideologically well-pre- pared graduates. Keywords: Catholic Social School in Poznań, Catholic Social Science, Poznań, Edward Kozłowski. * Mikołaj Brenk (orcid: 0000-0001-6576-7163) – dr, jest adiunktem na Wydziale Stu- diów Edukacyjnych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, kontakt: mikolaj@amu.edu.pl. Publikacja została przygotowana w związku z realizacją działania naukowego Naro- dowego Centrum Nauki” miniatura 5 nr 2021/05/x/hs6/01140.