Wacław Michał Zaleski (8 September 1799 in

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, eastern Galicia – 24 February 1849 in

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), pseudonym ''Wacław from Olesko'' (), was a Polish

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, poet, writer, researcher of folklore, theatre critic, political activist, and governor of Galicia (1848). Galician landowner and deputy to the Parliament. His sons were

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- the governor of Galicia and the member of the Austrian House of Lords, and Antoni (1842-1866, writer) and Józef Mieczysław (1838-1899, cavalryman, later commander of the division and field marshal), married to Martyna Grabianszczanka from Ostapkowce. Zaleski collected and published in

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''Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego'' (Polish and Russian songs of the Galician Nation; 1833), which contained about 1,500 works, including 160 with piano accompaniment composed by

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. It was the largest collection of folk songs published in Poland before Oskar Kolberg. Zaleski was an author of patriotic songs, paraphrases, translations of Ukrainian

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s and never-published stage works. His grandson - austrian Minister Wacław Michal Artur Zaleski obtained the hereditary title of Austrian Count from Emperor Franz-Josef.

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* * 1799 births 1849 deaths Polish folklorists Polish male poets Polish activists Polish theatre critics Polish translators Academic staff of the University of Lviv 19th-century Polish poets 19th-century Polish translators 19th-century Polish male writers Governors of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery Writers from the Austrian Empire {{Poland-noble-stub