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Macej Dogel
DOGEL Macej
(06.08.1715–24.02.1760)
Roman Catholic priest, historian, specialist in study of early texts, jurisprudent and pedagogue, author of the first diplomatic code in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Macej Dogel was born in the village of Gembyly, Lida district, Grodno province. He finished the Piarists school in Shchuchyn. He joined the Piarists order in 1730, started teaching. Since 1747, Dogel became a head of the Piarists collegium in Vilnius. He founded the Vilnius Konvinkt for young gentry in 1756. In 1748, being an ambassador of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, worked in archives and libraries of Germany, France and The Netherlands, where he collected a great amount of historical and diplomatic materials and documents concerning the history of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries. The historian used unfamiliar and secret documents from the Krakov Royal archive and the archive of Nesvizh. He planned to issue 8 volumes of the collection of international treatises “The diplomatic code of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth”, but only 3 of them (1758, 1759, 1764) were published. In 1758, Dogel published the collection of documents named “The Limits of Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth”. Macej Dogel died in Warsaw.
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