Wacław Michał Zaleski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wacław Michał Zaleski

Polish writer, folklorist, political activist

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1799

Place of Birth: Olesko, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1849

Profession: poet, translator, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Waclaw Michal Zaleski (8 September 1799 in Olesko, eastern Galicia – 24 February 1849 in Vienna), pseudonym Waclaw from Olesko (Polish: Waclaw z Oleska), was a Polish nobleman, poet, writer, researcher of folklore, theatre critic, political activist, and governor of Galicia (1848).
Galician landowner and deputy to the Parliament. His sons were Filip Zaleski - the governor of Galicia and the member of the Austrian House of Lords, and Antoni (1842-1866, writer) and Józef Mieczyslaw (1838-1899, cavalryman, later commander of the division and field marshal), married to Martyna Grabianszczanka from Ostapkowce. Zaleski collected and published in Lviv Piesni 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 Karol Lipinski.
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 dumas and never-published stage works. His grandson - Waclaw Michal Artur Zaleski obtained the hereditary title of Austrian Count from Emperor Franz-Josef.