Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (10 September 1792
– 10 February 1883)
was a Polish
historian
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.
Maciejowski was born in
Cierlicko near
Cieszyn
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.
He studied in
Warsaw
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,
Berlin
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, and
Göttingen
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, and became professor of law at the
University of Warsaw in 1819.
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);
the latter was the first monograph to be written on the Polish peasantry.
He followed the historical Romanticism of
Joachim Lelewel,
and had a
Pan-Slavic outlook.
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1792 births
1883 deaths
People from Karviná District
People from Austrian Silesia
People from Cieszyn Silesia
19th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
Historians from the Austrian Empire
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
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