| Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski | |
| Birth Date: | 10 September 1792 |
| Birth Place: | Cierlicko, Austrian Empire |
| Death Place: | Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| Nationality: | Polish |
| Alma Mater: | University of Warsaw, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Göttingen |
| Occupation: | Historian |
| Resting Place: | Warsaw |
Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (10 September 1792[1] – 10 February 1883)[2] was a Polish 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.
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.[3] He followed the historical Romanticism of Joachim Lelewel, and had a Pan-Slavic outlook.
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