Krystyn Lach-Szyrma

Krystyn Lach Szyrma

Krystyn Lach Szyrma (17 December 1790, Wojnasy; 21 April 1866, Devonport, Devon) was a professor of philosophy at Warsaw University.^[1] He was also a writer, journalist, translator and political activist.

Life

Szyrma was professor of philosophy at Warsaw University from 1824 to 1831. He left no philosophical writings.^[2]

Szyrma was one of nearly all the university professors of philosophy in Poland before the November 1830–31 Uprising who held a position that shunned both Positivism and metaphysical speculation, affined to the Scottish philosophers but linked in certain respects to Kantian critique.^[3]

See also

• History of philosophy in Poland
• List of Poles
• W. S. Lach-Szyrma

Notes

1. Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zarys..., pp. 16–17.
2. Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zarys..., pp. 16–17.
3. Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zarys..., pp. 16–17.

References

• Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zarys dziejów filozofii w Polsce (A Brief History of Philosophy in Poland), [in the series:] Historia nauki polskiej w monografiach (History of Polish Learning in Monographs), [volume] XXXII, Kraków, Polska Akademia Umiejętności (Polish Academy of Learning), 1948. This monograph draws from pertinent sections in earlier editions of the author's Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy).
• Krystyn Lach-Szyrma, From Charlotte Square to Fingal’s Cave: Reminiscences of a Journey through Scotland, 1820–1824, edited and annotated by Mona Kedslie McLeod, East Lothian, Tuckwell Press, 2004, 244 pp., illus., SB, £20.00.
• Lach-Szyrma, Krystyn (2009). London Observed: A Polish Philosopher at Large, 1822-24. Oxford: Signal Books.