Waclaw Rzewuski (1785–1831)
| Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski | |
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| Coat of arms | Krzywda |
| Born | 15 December 1784 Lwów |
| Died | 14 May 1831 (aged 46) |
| Noble family | Rzewuski |
| Consorts | Rozalia Aleksandra Lubomirska h. Szreniawa |
| Father | Seweryn Rzewuski |
| Mother | Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska |
Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (15 December 1784 – 14 May 1831) was a Polish explorer, poet, orientalist and horse expert.
Wacław Rzewuski was born 15 December 1784 in Lwów. He was the son of field Hetman Seweryn Rzewuski whose family held enormous estates in Ukraine, and Constance Margaret Lubomirskiej of the influential Lubomirski family. His parents moved the family to Vienna after the Third Partition of Poland and he was educated at the elite Theresianum. In 1806 he married Alexandra, another descendant of the Lubomirski family.
He served in the Austrian army, fighting at Aspern-Essling in 1809, as a second lieutenant in the regiment of Hussars and was dismissed in 1811. During his time in Vienna, his relative, the famous traveler and adventurer, , stirred his interest in travel to the lands of the Middle East and he took up the study of Turkish and Arabic. Together with the pioneering Austrian orientalist, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, he founded one of the first professional journals of Middle East and Islamic Studies, Mines de l'Orient (Fundgruben des Orientes) (Fontes rerum orientalium)(Sources for Oriental Studies) which was published in six folio volumes from 1809 to 1819.
He eventually became a member of the scientific society in Göttingen, the Munich Academy of Sciences and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning.
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