Michał Wiszniewski
Michał Wiszniewski was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, and literary historian.Life
Wiszniewski graduated from the celebrated Krzemieniec Lyceum, where he subsequently taught for a time.
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.
Wiszniewski was an epigone of the Polish Enlightenment, and at the same time a precursor of Positivism.
He authored a pioneering book on Characters of Human Minds, which is regarded as the first Polish work in the field of psychology.Works
- Bacona metoda tłumaczenia natury
- Charaktery rozumów ludzkich
- Historia literatury polskiej
