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Stanisław Ossowski
Stanisław Ossowski (Lipno, 22 May 18977 November 1963, Warsaw) was one of Poland's most important sociologists.
He held professorships at Łódź University (1945–47) and Warsaw University (1947–63).
Life.
Ossowski first contributed to logic and aesthetics before moving on to sociology. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw, his teachers were i.a. Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Jan Łukasiewicz and Władysław Tatarkiewicz. He also studied in Paris (Collège de France), in Rome and in London. He
National Award "(Polska Nagroda Państwowa I stopnia)", the highest Polish state accolade.
Ossowska was married to sociologist Stanisław Ossowski, with whom she closely cooperated in research and teaching.
Maria Ossowska and Stanisław Ossowski are considered among the founders of the field of "science of science" due to their authorship of a seminal 1935 paper titled "The Science of Science."
Works.
- 1925 (as Maria Niedźwiecka): "Ontologia Bertranda Russella" [The ontology of Bertrand Russell]. Warszawa