14 Facts About Julian Ochorowicz

Julian Leopold Ochorowicz was a Polish philosopher, psychologist, inventor, poet, publicist, and leading exponent of Polish Positivism.

Julian Ochorowicz was the son of Julian and Jadwiga, nee Suminska.

Julian Ochorowicz studied natural sciences at Warsaw University, graduating in 1871.

Julian Ochorowicz published pedagogical papers in Encyklopedia Wychowawcza.

Julian Ochorowicz was a pioneer of empirical research in psychology and conducted studies into occultism, Spiritualism, hypnosis, and telepathy.

Julian Ochorowicz wrote the poem, "Naprzod", regarded as the Polish Positivists' manifesto.

Julian Ochorowicz, a trained philosopher with a doctorate from the University of Leipzig, became the leader of the Positivist movement in Poland.

Julian Ochorowicz experimented with microphones and with apparatus for sending sound and light over distances, and so is regarded a precursor of radio and television.

In 1877 Julian Ochorowicz elaborated a concept for a monochromatic television, to be constructed as a screen comprising bulbs that would convert transmitted images into groups of light points.

Julian Ochorowicz's microphone impressed the International Society of Electricians and the French Society of Physics.

Julian Ochorowicz was well-known as a writer, especially on cookery and household hygiene, and as a magazine editor.

Julian Ochorowicz provided Prus books on Egyptology that he had brought back from Paris.

Also in 1893, Julian Ochorowicz introduced Prus to the Italian Spiritualist, Eusapia Palladino, whom he had brought to Warsaw from her mediumistic tour in St Petersburg, Russia.

Julian Ochorowicz hosted Palladino in Warsaw from November 1893 to January 1894.