Józef Kremer
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Józef Kremer (February 22, 1806, Kraków - June 2, 1875 Kraków), was a Polish historian of art, a philosopher, an aesthetician and a psychologist.
He has studied in Kraków, Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris. Professor of philosophy and rector of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków: 1847 - assistant professor; 1850 - ordinary professor; 1865 - Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy; in the academic year 1870/1871 - rector). He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning from the day of its founding (1872). Professor of art history and aesthetics of Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Kremer was the first proponent of Hegelianism in Poland. In 1843 he published the first volume of "Listy z Krakowa" [Letters from Kraków] - a lecture in easthetics in the Hegelian spirit (vols. 1-3, Vilnius 1855-1856), which brought him recognition and renown. Also his "Wykład systematyczny filozofii" [A systematic course of philosophy] (vol. 1, Kraków 1849; vol. 2, Vilinius 1852), apart form the work of Karol Libelt, the first systematic textbook of philosophy in 19th-century Poland, was well received. Kremer's popularity and fame was, however, ensured primarly by his "Podróż do Włoch" [Journey to Italy] (vols. 1-5, Vilnius 1859-1864), which was soon placed among the classics of Polish literature, and its excerpts were included in the textbooks and anthologies of the day. Thanks to the efforts of Henryk Struve, in the years 1877-1880 a twelve-volume edition of his collected works was published in Warsaw. None of the other Polish philosophers contemporary with Kremer could boast a publication like this. Kremer's most important achievement in psychology was the systematic division of psychic phenomenon into the conscious and the unconscious as well as the treatment of anthropology as a science which probes the mutual relation between these two. By considering the act as the best source of information about a person, Kremer anticipated Wilhelm Dilthey's position.
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- Józef Kremer (1806-1875), Ed. Jacek Maj, Kraków: Universitas 2007 (in Polish with English or Italian summary), ISBN 978-83-242-0748-0. Book note (English)
- Józef Kremer, "Krynica wiadomości". Korespondencja Józefa Kremera z lat 1834-1875, Ed. Zbigniew Sudolski, Kraków: Uniwersitas 2007 (in Polish), ISBN 978-83-242-0920-0.
