Piotr Chmielowski (9 February 1848 – 22 April 1904) was a Polish philosopher, literary historian and critic.

[1] After studying at Warsaw's Main School in Russian Poland and at Leipzig University (to 1874), Chmielowski taught till 1898 in Warsaw private schools.

[3] Chmielowski was the outstanding student and critic of literature during Poland's Positivist period.

As a historian he was influenced by the philosophical and esthetic concepts of the French critic Hippolyte Taine, and studied the relations between writers' works and their social and cultural milieux, seeking the expressions of those relations chiefly in the works' ideological concerns.

[4] Chmielowski died on 22 April 1904 in Lwów and was interred at the Łyczakowski Cemetery.