Władysław Ślebodziński was born in Pysznica and educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1903-1908) where he subsequently held a teaching position until 1921.

During the Second World War, he gave underground lectures, leading to his imprisonment.

He survived three German concentration camps: Auschwitz (1942 - 1945), where he gave underground university-level lectures as prisoner no.

With Bronisław Knaster, Edward Marczewski and Hugo Steinhaus, he was a co-founder of the mathematical journal Colloquium Mathematicum.

Schouten,[5] the term Lie derivative occurred first in a two-part paper by van Dantzig.