Adam Schaff


Adam Schaff was a Polish Marxist philosopher.

Life

Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lemberg into a lawyer's family. Schaff studied economics at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques et Economiques in Paris, and philosophy in Poland, specializing in epistemology. In 1945 he received a philosophy degree at Moscow University, and in 1948 he returned to Warsaw University. He was considered the official ideologue of the Polish United Workers' Party, especially during its Stalinist period.
He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Club of Rome.

Works

Several of Schaff's works were translated into German by Witold Leder.