# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/waldemar-ysiak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:19:05.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/waldemar-ysiak"
name: "Waldemar Łysiak"
slug: "waldemar-ysiak"
description: "Waldemar Łysiak is a bestselling Polish writer, art historian and journalist, who has written under his own name as well as the pseudonyms 'Valdemar Baldhead', 'Archibald', 'Mark W. Kingden', 'Rezerwowy Ł.'. He is notable as an author of numerous books on the Napoleonic era, both historical and fiction. He also owns a large number of rare prints and manuscripts, among others the poems by Norwid and the only surviving copy of Kochanowski's Treny."
tagline: "Polish art historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak_by_Zbigniew_Kresowaty.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.1
  momentum:             0.7454342154304883
  historical:           7.103788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "والديمار ليسياك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak"
    title: "Waldemar Łysiak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak"
    title: "Waldemar Łysiak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak"
    title: "Waldemar Łysiak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak"
    title: "Waldemar Łysiak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_%C5%81ysiak"
    title: "Waldemar Łysiak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4017765"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump