Stefan Błachowski

Stefan Błachowski (Opawa, 19 May 1889 – 31 January 1962, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish psychologist and professor at Poznań University.

In 1913 he studied biology again at Vienna and successfully defended his doctoral thesis at Göttingen.

In 1945-47 he was a member of the National Council (Rada Narodowa) at the Ministry of Education (Ministerstwo Oświaty).

He studied the role of imagination, memory, erudition, the subconscious and ideas in scientific creativity.

Błachowski maintained contacts with many world authorities in psychology, including Jean Piaget.