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.
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.
