Matseevski V. A. History of Slavic legislation. Volume I .

Matseevski V. A. History of Slavic legislation. Volume I .
Moscow. University printing house. 1858 90 p. Large format: 18 x 26 cm. Paperback. Uncut pages. Written off from the funds of the RSL - there are 2 stamps.

Translated from Polish. 

Wenceslas-Alexander Maciejewski (Polish. Wacław Aleksander Maciejowski (1792-1883) was a Polish historian and Professor of Roman law in Warsaw until 1830.

Published "Principia juris romani" (varsh. 1820; 2 ed., 1825) and a number of essays on the history of Roman law: "Opusculorum Sylloge prima" (1823). In the interval between the uprisings in Poland in 1830 and 1863, M. was the Herald of the idea of General Slavic unity, which was hated by the then Polish society, even if this unity began at first not with politics, but only with literature and science. Thus converging with Kollar, Shafarik, Ganka, Bodyansky, Pogodin, and the first generation of Russian Slavophiles, Poland was completely alone.

In his History of Slavic legislations ("Historia prawodawstwa słowiańskiego") (varsh. 1832-35; 2 perer. ed., 1856-65; set himself the task of finding out the legal unity of the Slavic world; he paid less attention to the national peculiarities of individual legislations. This extensive work, which still remains the only comprehensive work on this subject, did not create a school, and does not differ in a good method of research, quotes need to be checked; but the main qualities of the author were clearly reflected in it — the greatest reading ability, the ability to create the most unexpected hypotheses and raise questions, causing controversy and contributing, thereby, to the success of science. In Op. V. Dutkiewicz: "Spostrzeženia nad historią prawodawst slowiańskich" (varsh. 1870) details the numerous errors of M. in the history of law.

M. himself was aware of the need to rework many of the issues he raised. He made several trips abroad and re-collected his monuments published, with explanations, under the title: "Pamiętnik o dziejach piśmiennictwa i prawa Słowian" (Warsaw, 1839; Russian. transl. 1 t. Evetsky: "History of the primitive Christian Church among the Slavs", Warsaw, 1840; 2 t. - Dubrovsky: "Essay on the history of writing and education of the Slavs. peoples before the XIV century.", in "Readings of the Moscow society of History and Antiquities" 1846, book. II). In 1 vol. this book [About censorship concessions that, in deep secrecy, were made by the Russian government in order to facilitate the publication of this Op. M., see the document, p. V. Naumenko in " Kiev. In 1896, no. 2] M. proved that in ancient Poland there was a Slavic worship service, which only later, due to political circumstances, was superseded by Latin. In the introduction to the second volume of his collection on the history of writing and education, m. claims that of all the peoples of antiquity, only the Greeks were the true guides of enlightenment, and in the future this role should be the lot of the Slavs.

Then issuing a "Pierwotne dzieje Polski i Litwy" (varsh., 1846), "Kronika polska pierwszych dziesię ciu wiekó w po Chrystusie" (warsch., 1848) and "Roczmki i kroniki polskie I litewskie" (1860), M. in 1852 released a remarkable, huge work: "Piśmiennictwo polskie od czasów najdawniejszych aż do roku 1830" (Warsaw; brought to 1650) — his most important contribution to science, but the least appreciated by contemporaries. Here M. for the first time, he described the works of Polish writing on the basis of personal study of its monuments (for which he reviewed public and private libraries in Poland and abroad), not only collected, but also critically evaluated all the literary material. Considering literature as something integral, organically connected, M. refuses to divide it into periods or epochs and only sees in it turns, directions (zwroty). He refers to the first turn of folk literature, to the second-the time from the beginning of writing to the appearance of outstanding writers of the XVI century.; the third turn is the synthesis of the previous ones-the development of national literature. 

After the publication of the" History of writing " M. lived for another 30 years, working tirelessly, but in his later works there is nothing remarkable, and much indicates the decline of his mental strength. For a list of works by M. after 1852, see ptashitsky's art.; in "J. M. H. Ave." (1883, no. 3). In Russian. translated the following Op. M.: "old Polish rural community" (varsh. 1877), "on the common law of the Carpathian mountaineers, little Russians and great Russians" (from the third volume of "History of Slavic legislation", "Legal Bulletin" 1878, No. 7) and "Jews in Poland, Russia and Lithuania" (varsh., 1881).