Józef Pieter (19 February 1904 in Ochaby – 3 March 1989) was a Polish psychologist, philosopher, pedagogue, researcher, and lecturer. Pr. Pieter dedicated his life and work to the study of the psychology and mechanisms of teaching and learning, the comparison of pedagogical systems, the process of reasoning and the methodology and organisation of scientific work. Pr. Pieter earned his PhD at the Jagiellonian University and passed his habilitation at the University of Poznań. Pr. Pieter is the author of over 230 scientific publications. Education Born in Ochaby, the country side of Cieszyn, in South Western Poland, Pr. J. Pieter studied history, philosophy, psychology and pedagogy at the Jagellonian University of Cracow. He earned his PhD in Philosophy and Classical Philology from this institution in 1928. He later received his habilitation from the University of Poznan in 1945. Academic Life and Functions Pr. J. Pieter was the Chair of Psychology at the University of Łódź, University of Warsaw and Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego (AWF) in Warsaw. Post-war, he re-organised the Institute of Pedagogy as well as the Wyzsza Szkola Pedagogiczna (WSP) of Katowice, that he was the elected Rector of for 4 terms until its integration into the University of Silesia upon its creation in 1968, where he then was the Chair Professor of Psychology. Pr. J. Pieter is also known as a founding father of the University of Silesia. As early as 1929, he published a manifesto calling upon its creation, that would only happen in 1968 (« Thoughts on the Organisation of Scientific Work and Research in Silesia »). During World War Two, Pr. J. Pieter was an active participant in the Underground Education System that allowed students to follow a school and university curriculum during the war. The early encounter with psychology, and the field of pedagogy in particular, cannot be dissociated from the even earlier encounter with nature that Pr. J. Pieter studied throughout his life in the specific fields of Botanics and Physical Geography, leading him to become a vocal speaker for the preservation of natural areas and landscape. He also had a well known fascination for the mountains and in particular his local Beskidy. Psychology of Pedagogy and Learning Pr. Jozef Pieter is the author of over 230 scientific publications, amongst which 50 books, in the fields of : Psychology : psychology of teaching and learning, psychology of knowledge and science, intellectual thought process, psychobiography,