Wacław Maciejowski
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Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (1793 – February 10, 1883)[1] was a Polish historian.
Maciejowski was born in Kalwaria. He studied in Warsaw, Berlin, and Göttingen, and became professor of law at the University of Warsaw in 1819.[1]
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);[1] the latter was the first monograph to be written on the Polish peasantry.[2] He followed the historical Romanticism of Joachim Lelewel,[2] and had a Pan-Slavic outlook.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d (German) "Maciejowski". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (4th edition) 11. (1890). p. 32.
- ^ a b John D. Stanley (2006). "Introduction", in Peter Brock, John D. Stanley & Piotr J. Wróbel: Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War. University of Toronto Press, p. 7. ISBN 0802090362.
