- Wacław Maciejowski
Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (1792cite book
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ref=] –February 10 ,1883 )de icon cite encyclopedia | title = Maciejowski | encyclopedia =Meyers Konversations-Lexikon | edition = 4th edition | year = 1890 | | volume = 11 | pages = p. 32 | url = http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=110725] was a Polishhistorian .Maciejowski was born in
Cierlicko nearCieszyn . He studied inWarsaw ,Berlin , andGöttingen , and became professor of law at theUniversity 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.cite book | author = John D. Stanley | chapter = Introduction | title = Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War | editor = Peter Brock, John D. Stanley & Piotr J. Wróbel | publisher = University of Toronto Press | year = 2006 | id = ISBN 0802090362 | pages = p. 7] He followed the historical Romanticism of
Joachim Lelewel , and had a Pan-Slavic outlook.References
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