Bronisław Bandrowski

Bronisław Bandrowski (; 27 May 1879 – 27 July 1914)

Biography Bandrowski was born on 27 May 1879 in Mościska (Galicia, Austria-Hungary). He was the son of Alfred Bandrowski, a court clerk, and Joanna née Zajączkowska. He was also the nephew of the Polish opera tenor Aleksander Bandrowski and the cousin of the writer Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski.

After finishing high school, Bandrowski took classical philology and philosophy at the University of Lviv. In 1905 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy. In the years 1905–1906 he supplemented his psychological studies in Göttingen and London. Stay at G.E. Müller in Göttingen influenced his interest in experimental psychology.

Work Bandrowski's doctoral dissertation, On methods of induction research, is considered one of his most notable works. It included a critical analysis of the intrinsic qualities of induction. In this paper, he also maintained that – to analyze induction – the question concerning the qualities of the notion of cause must first be answered. It included an analysis of Edmund Husserl's works (e.g. theory of content and the Phenomenon of thinking). Bandrowski rejected the German philosopher's method in his embrace of the descriptive-psychological method and logical analysis. Bandrowski argued that there is no significant difference between the results of Freud's theory and the findings of contemporary psychological theories if his theory is formulated using the terminology of the latter. Having lost hope, Bandrowski threw himself into an abyss after three days waiting for help. His sister was later rescued by a TOPR rescue expedition led by Mariusz Zaruski.