[3] His father was a chief railway inspector while his mother, the second wife of Wenzel, was a daughter of a Hungarian civil servant.

[4] Witasek became a scholar, a career, which Rudolf Ameseder described as a meager life marked by hard work, poverty, and belated recognition.

[5] Although, he was known for serving as Meinong's private assistant for a decade on Austria's first psychological laboratory, Witasek would be credited for directing the facility's development only after his death.

His investigation of Christian von Ehrenfels' instances of Gestaltqualitaten detailed how a polyphonic composition constitute the different "voices", which are considered complexions.

[9] One of the notable theories that Witasek pushed forward was his claim that pre-existing sensational elements create psychological products in the form of different perceptual configurations.