Roman Witold Ingarden

Jan Wolenski

Ed. by Ewa M. Thompson, Rice University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 5 Feb 1893
Died 14 Jun 1970
Activity 1924-1970

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Germany; Poland; Austria

Activities

Primary

Philosopher

Resources

The philosopher Roman Witold Ingarden was an important contributor to phenomenology, ontology, and aesthetics, who defended realist phenomenology against Husserl’s later transcendental idealism. In aesthetics, he elaborated a theory of the literary work according to which literary works have a complex structure and exist as intentional objects.

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Ontology. 2

Ingarden’ Theory of the Literary Work. 5

Ingarden’s Influence. 5

Life

Roman Ingarden was born in Kraków on February 5^th, 1893. He began his studies at the Polish-language University of Lwów (also known as Lemberg under the Austrian partition, today Lviv in western Ukraine) under Kazimierz Twardowski in 1911, but moved to Göttingen in 1912, where he studied philosophy as his main subject under Edmund Husserl and additionally mathematics under David Hilbert and psychology under Georg Müller....

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Citation: Wolenski, Jan. "Roman Witold Ingarden". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12591, accessed 09 June 2026.]

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