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Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński
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Count Józef Kajetan Piotr Maksymilian Ossoliński known as Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748 – 17 March 1826) was a Polish nobleman, landowner, politician, novelist, poet, historian and researcher into literature, historian, translator, lexicographer, bibliophile, a forerunner of Slavic studies and a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment. He founded the Ossoliński Institute in Lwów to which he donated his immense library and other collections of manuscripts and coins.[1]
Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński | |
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Coat of arms | Topór |
Born | 1748 Wola Mielecka |
Died | 17 March 1826(1826-03-17) (aged 77–78) Vienna |
Family | Ossoliński |
Consort | Teresa Jabłonowska |
Father | Michał Ossoliński |
Mother | Anna Szaniewska |
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Józef was a member of many learned institutions, and a doctor honoris causa of the Jagiellonian University. He became one of the first Polish politicians from Galicia. He took Austrian citizenship when he became prefect of the Imperial Austrian Library in 1793 in Vienna. He employed Samuel Linde as his "Gräfliche Ossolinskische Bibliothekar", librarian of the Ossoliński Library until 1803 and under his patronage compiler of the first Polish Lexicon.[2]