Roman Witold Ingarden (1893 - 1970), a Polish philosopher, working in the fields of phenomenology, ontology, and aesthetics. Before the second World War, Ingarden published his works mainly in German. During WWII, he switched to Polish, therefore his major works on ontology went largely unnoticed by the wider philosophical community.

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Born on February 5, 1893 in Kraków, as an Austrian subject during Austria'a last occupation of Southern Poland, he initially studied mathematics and philosophy under the guidance of Kazimierz Twardowski in Lwów, and in 1912 moved to Göttingen to study philosophy under Edmund Husserl. Husserl considered Ingarden one of his best students, and Ingarden followed him to Freiburg, where he submitted his doctoral dissertation in 1918 with Husserl as director. The two remained in close touch until Husserl's death in 1938.

After receiving his doctoral degree, Ingarden returned to Poland for most of his academic career. At first he taught mathematics, psychology and philosophy in schools and worked on his Habilitationschrift, Essentiale Frage, which achieved some attention in the English speaking philosophical community. He was given a position at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and in 1933 promoted to Professor. During this professorship he published most widely known work, The Literary Work of Art.

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