Wincenty Lutosławski

Wincenty Lutosławski

Wincenty Lutosławski (born June 6, 1863 in Warsaw , † December 28, 1954 in Krakow ) was a Polish philosopher.

Life

Lutosławski attended the Mitau grammar school and studied in Dorpat , Rome, Paris and London. From 1890 he taught at the University of Kazan . In 1895 he went to Spain, later he taught at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Lausanne, Geneva, London, Paris and from 1920 to 1929 at the University of Vilnius .

He became known for his writings on Plato ( Preservation and Fall of the State Constitutions according to Plato , 1887; The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic , 1897). In his own philosophical writings ( The Ethical Consequences of the Doctrine of Immortality , 1895; Preexistence and Reincarnation , 1928) he dealt with metaphysical and spiritualistic ideas.

In The Polish Nation (1908) he presented tolerance, love of liberty and Catholicism as characteristics that shaped the Polish nation and made it the starting point of a future European society. Even before 1900, Lutosławski coined the term stylometry in the field of philology ( Principes de stylométrie , 1890).

Lutosławski was married to the writer Sofia Casanova . He was an uncle of the composer Witold Lutosławski .

Web links

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literature

• Halina Lerski: Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945 , ABC-CLIO, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-03456-5 , p. 318.
• Stanisĺaw Jedynak: Polish Axiology of the 20th Century: Polish Philosophical Studies, IV , CRVP, 2002, ISBN 978-1-56518-141-0 , pp. 42-43.