Gustav Shpet (1879–1937) – Russian philosopher of Polish origin, Graduate of the University of Kiev, student of psychologist Georgy Chelpanov, with whom he moved to Moscow in 1907. In 1910–1913 he made several trips around Western Europe (France, Scotland, Germany) in order to better understand European philosophy. He spent several months in Göttingen, where he established contact with Edmund Husserl, which strongly influenced his later scientific and philosophical activities. In 1914 his first philosophical book was published Phenomenon and meaning, being the world’s first lecture on Husserl’s phenomenology. Phenomenology also became his own method used in research and various manifestations of cultural reality. He worked on psychology, the theory of history, semiotics and hermeneutics, the history of Russian philosophy, and aesthetics. After 1930, removed from teaching and academic work, he turned to translations of literary and philosophical works. He died during the great purges. Two of his books have been published in Polish: Internal form of the word (University of Gdańsk Publishing House, 2003) and Phenomenon and meaning (IFiS PAN Publishing House, 2018).
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