Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński

Count Józef Kajetan Piotr Maksymilian Ossoliński known as Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński 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.