Michał Wiszniewski
Polish philosopher, psychologist and literary historian
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Michał Wiszniewski (27 September 1794 – 22 December 1865) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, and literary historian.[1]
Life
Wiszniewski graduated from the celebrated Krzemieniec Lyceum (secondary school), where he subsequently taught for a time.[2]
In 1831 he became a professor at Kraków's Jagiellonian University. He was a conservative activist during the Kraków Uprising of 1846. In 1848 he emigrated to Italy.[3]
Wiszniewski was an epigone of the Polish Enlightenment, and at the same time a precursor of Positivism.[4]
He authored a pioneering book on Characters of Human Minds, which is regarded as the first Polish work in the field of psychology.[5]
Works
- Bacona metoda tłumaczenia natury (Bacon's Method of Explaining Nature; 1834)
- Charaktery rozumów ludzkich (Characters of Human Minds; 1837, English edition 1853
- O rozumie ludzkim (On the Human Mind; 1848)
- Historia literatury polskiej (A History of Polish Literature; vols. 1–10, 1840–57)
