Wacław Maciejowski

Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (10 September 1792[1] – 10 February 1883)[2] was a Polish historian.

Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski
Wacław Maciejowski in 1870
Born	10 September 1792 Cierlicko, Austrian Empire
Died	10 February 1883 (aged 90) Warsaw, Congress Poland
Resting place	Warsaw
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	University of Warsaw, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Göttingen
Occupation	Historian

Maciejowski was born in Cierlicko near Cieszyn.[1] He studied in Warsaw, Berlin, and Göttingen, and became professor of law at the University of Warsaw in 1819.[2]

He wrote three major works: a history of Slavic legislation (1832–38, 4 vols.; 2nd ed. 1856–65, 6 vols.), a history of Polish literature since the 16th century (1851–62, 3 vols.) and a history of the peasants of Poland (1874);[2] the latter was the first monograph to be written on the Polish peasantry.[3] He followed the historical Romanticism of Joachim Lelewel,[3] and had a Pan-Slavic outlook.[2]

References

1. Golec, Józef; Bojda, Stefania (1995). Słownik biograficzny ziemi cieszyńskiej (in Polish). 2. p. 129.
2. "Maciejowski". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (in German). 11 (4th ed.). 1890. p. 32.
3. John D. Stanley (2006). "Introduction". In Peter Brock, John D. Stanley & Piotr J. Wróbel (ed.). Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War. University of Toronto Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-8020-9036-2.

External links

• Works by Wacław Maciejowski at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Wacław Maciejowski at Internet Archive