| Adam Schaff | |
| Birth Date: | 10 March 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
| Death Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
| Era: | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region: | Western philosophy |
| School Tradition: | Marxism |
| Main Interests: | Epistemology |
| Alma Mater: | Lviv University Moscow State University |
| Awards: | Order of Polonia Restituta |
Adam Schaff (10 March 1913 - 12 November 2006) was a Polish Marxist philosopher.
Of Jewish origin, Schaff was born in Lemberg (Lwow, Lviv) into a lawyer's family.[1] 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.[2]
Several of Schaff's works were translated into German by Witold Leder.[3]