“No way, do not leave, I write to you not have” – a personal correspondence of Lviv City Secretary Wojciech Zimnicki in the years 1618–1639

Abstract

The article shows a role of a correspondence in prosopographical research of the life of Lviv city clerk in the 1st half of 17th century, Wojciech Zimnicki. A main direction of research is a closer definition of biographical facts, secretaries work, as well as Wojciech Zimnicki’s private life. On a basis of this kind of sources it is possible to picture an image of an official of those times: a city clerk, a head of secretariat, bourgeois and a member of judicial board, and also a father and a husband.