Stanisław Ossowski

Doctorate (Analysis of the notion of a sign, 1925) wrote to Tadeusz Kotarbiński at the University of Warsaw.

Ossowski was one of the greatest intellectual and moral authorities in post-war Poland, he has had a strong influence on Polish sociologists, including Zygmunt Bauman and Jerzy Szacki.

In 1949 Ossowski was a founding member, and from 1959 to 1962 vice-president, of the International Sociological Association.

Ossowski was married to Maria Ossowska, a fellow sociologist and social philosopher.

An indication of the esteem in which he was held by certain sections of Polish society is a statue of him erected in Central Warsaw.