Adam Schaff (10 March 1913 – 12 November 2006) was a Polish Marxist philosopher. Life Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lemberg (Lwow, Lviv) into a lawyer's family. Schaff studied economics at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques et Economiques in Paris, and philosophy in Poland, specializing in epistemology. In 1945 he received a philosophy degree at Moscow University, and in 1948 he returned to Warsaw University. He was considered the official ideologue of the Polish United Workers' Party, especially during its Stalinist period. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Club of Rome. Works Word and Concept Language and Cognition Introduction to Semantic Problems of the Marxist Theory of Truth A Philosophy of Man Several of Schaff's works were translated into German by Witold Leder. External links Adam Schaff (1913-2006) - Necrology See also History of philosophy in Poland Marxism References 1913 births 2006 deaths Writers from Lviv Marxist theorists 20th-century Polish philosophers Jewish philosophers 20th-century Polish Jews Jewish socialists Polish United Workers' Party members Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)