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Apr 30, 1861 Valozhyn District, Minsk Region, Belarus Died on 05 Oct 1938 (aged 77)
Polish philosopher
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About Marian Zdziechowski
- Marian Zdziechowski (30 April 1861, Nowosiólki, Minsk Governorate – 5 October 1938, Wilno) was a Polish philosopher, Slavist, publicist and cultural historian.
- Critic of fascist and communist totalitarianism.
- Representative of catastrophism and philosophical pessimism.
- He was a brother of Kazimierz Zdziechowski, writer. Since 1888 was a lecturer and since 1899 professor of Jagiellonian University.
- In 1919–1931 professor and 1925–1927 rector of Stefan Batory University.
- Since 1902 member of the Academy of Learning.
- Honoris causa in universities of Vilno, Tartu and Szeged. His area of study was historical, literary, philosophical and religious problems.
- He was an initiator of Slavic Club in Kraków which was active from 1901 to 1914 and periodical Swiat Slowianski (Slavic World) published in the years of 1905–1914.
- Zdziechowski propagated idea of co-operation between all of Slavs.
- He was interested mainly in the problem of evil, modernism in Roman Catholic Church, ideology of Romanticism, and crisis of European culture, in which he indicated fascism and communism as a dangerous.
- He referred to thoughts of Vladimir Solovyov, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Berdyaev and Dmitry Merezhkovsky.
