The book collection of Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski – a scientist’s workshop

Abstract

Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (1792-1883) was a historian of culture, Slavic researcher, representative of romantic and Slavophil trend, the first in Poland representative of historical school in jurisprudence. He belonged to the most distinguished Polish researchers of the 19^th century. During his studies on the history of Slavic nations he collected a great library, representing numerous, interesting disciplines. However, this article does not offer a complete monography of his specialist book collection. Instead, it aims at characteristics of the part being used as a scientific workshop. It also focuses on Maciejowski’s scientific, personal, and correspondence relations. Consequently, it omits many remarkable research works and academic disciplines represented in this library, but unimportant from the perspective of methodology of this study. Selected part of the book collection is presented along with a chronology of Maciejowski’s interests in three main thematic groups: history, law, philology. Within these groups the order of scientific communities (academic – from the time of his studies, Warsaw, and the following Polish and foreign centres) is applied.