Władysław Witwicki

Władysław Witwicki (30 April 1878, Lubaczów – 21 December 1948, Konstancin) was a Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist. He is seen as one of the fathers of psychology in Poland.

Witwicki was also 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 was one of the initiators and co-founders of Polish Philosophical Society. He is one of the thinkers associated with the Lwów–Warsaw school.

Władysław Witwicki was the fifth child of Urszula Witwicka, born Woińska (niece of the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv, Łukasz Baraniecki), and Ludwik–Filip Wasylkowicz Witwicki, as well as father of Janusz Witwicki, the creators of the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv.

He graduated from the University of Lviv, was a student of Kazimierz Twardowski. He also studied at the University of Vienna (under the direction of Alois Höfler [de]) 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. He also collaborated with other philosophers. For instance, he worked with Bronisław Bandrowski to develop a model of psychology based on Franz Brentano's theory on phenomenology. It included an analysis of Edmund Husserl's Theory of Content and the Phenomenon of Thinking.

• Translations of Plato's dialogues
• Psychologia do użytku słuchaczów wyższych szkół naukowych, vol. 1–2 (1925–1927)
• Wiara oświeconych, 1959 (fr.: La foi des éclairés, 1939)
• Przechadzki ateńskie (a series of radio programs, 1939, issued in 1947)
• Translations of the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark with psychological analysis (Dobra Nowina według Mateusza i Marka [pl], written in 1942, issued in 1958)

• Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan; Radzilowski, John; Tolczyk, Dariusz, eds. (2009). Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-3096-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Citlak, Amadeusz (2015). "Psychobiography of Jesus Christ in view of Władysław Witwicki's theory of cratism". Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration. Scientific Society KUL. 21 (1–2). doi:10.2478/pepsi-2015-0007. ISSN 2300-0945. OCLC 998362074.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Nowicki, Andrzej (1982). Witwicki (in Polish). Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna. ISBN 83-214-0301-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Rzepa, Teresa (1991). Psychologia Władysława Witwickiego [Psychology of Władysław Witwicki] (in Polish). Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM. ISBN 83-232-0332-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Rzepa, Teresa (1992). "Witwicki Władysław".In Kosnarewicz, Elwira; Rzepa, Teresa; Stachowski, Ryszard;et al. (eds.). Słownik psychologów polskich [Dictionary of Polish psychologists] (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Psychologii UAM. pp. 214–218. OCLC 834052536.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Płotka, Witold (2020). "From psychology to phenomenology (and back again): A controversy over the method in the school of Twardowski". Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 19 (1). doi:10.1007/s11097-019-09620-x. ISSN 1572-8676.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Szmyd, Jan (1996). Psychologiczny obraz religijności i mistyki: z badań psychologów polskich [Psychological picture of religiousness and mysticism: from the research of the Polish psychologists] (in Polish). Kraków: Wydawn. Naukowe WSP. ISBN 978-8-3868-4154-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)