Society of Young Kashubians

In 1912 he founded the Society of Young Kashubians and started the newspaper "Gryf".

His works were influential upon Dr. Aleksander Majkowski and the Society of Young Kashubians; they continue to receive considerable attention from Kashubian and Polish scholars today.

In 1909 he was one of the founding members of the Society of Young Kashubians along with Aleksander Majkowski, Jan Karnowski, and Leon Heyke.

The Society of Young Kashubians worked to awaken ethnic self-awareness among the Kashubian people, to promote understanding of Kashubian culture and to connect Kashubians with the Polish scientific movement.

Despite its short life and its comparatively scanty literary output, the Society of Young Kashubians proved that a Kashubian literary movement could succeed, and served as inspiration to all succeeding Kashubian literary groups.

A capstone to years of efforts, in June 1912, Aleksander Majkowski managed to set up his Gdańsk-based Towarzystwo Młodokaszubów (The Society of Young Kashubians), established for "the cultural, economical and political development of Kashubia".

He was actively recruited by the region-wide resistance organization "Kashubian Griffin" for his leadership qualities as soldier and as priest; he was already well known to its leadership, many of whom had also belonged to the Society of Young Kashubians.

The Society of Young Kashubians (Towarzystwo Młodokaszubskie) has decided to follow in this way, and while they the sought to create a strong Kashubian identity, at the same time saw in Kashubs "One branch, of many, of the great Polish nation".

Although he was associated with the Society of Young Kashubians from its start, he gradually distanced himself from the Society's cultural objectives and focused on his priestly vocation and his poetry, which he published under the nom de plume Stanisław Czernicki.

A co-founder, with Dr. Aleksander Majkowski and (to a lesser extent) Father Leon Heyke, of the Society of Young Kashubians, Karnowski aimed at upgrading the status of the Kashubian language, along with building a foundation for an eventual Kashubian regional movement.