Władysław Witwicki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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polish psychologist, philosopher and translator
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Place of Birth: Lubaczów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
About Władysław Witwicki
- Wladyslaw Witwicki (30 April 1878, Lubaczów – 21 December 1948, Konstancin) was a Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist.
- Seen as one of the fathers of psychology in Poland.
- He was a graduate of the University of Lviv, he also studied at the University of Vienna (under the direction of Alois Höfler) and at the Leipzig University (under the direction of Wilhelm Wundt).
- He lectured at the University of Lviv and became a professor at the University of Warsaw (1919–1948).Witwicki is the author of the first Polish textbooks on psychology, the creator of the theory of cratism, theory of feelings, and he dealt with the issues of the psychology of religion, and the creation of secular ethics.
- He is one of the thinkers associated with the Lwów–Warsaw school.Wladyslaw Witwicki was the fifth child of Urszula Witwicka, born Woinska (niece of the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, Lukasz Baraniecki), and Ludwik–Filip Wasylkowicz Witwicki, as well as father of Janusz Witwicki, the creators of the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv.
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