Barbara Skarga

{{Infobox philosopher

| region = Western Philosophy

| era = 20th-century philosophy

| image = Barbara Skarga Warsaw May17 2000 Fot Mariusz Kubik.jpg

| caption = Skarga in 2000

| name = Barbara Skarga

| birth_date = 25 October 1919

| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|9|18|1919|10|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Olsztyn, Poland

| school_tradition = Philosophy of dialogue

| main_interests = Epistemology, humanity, ontology, ethics

}}

Barbara Skarga (25 October 1919 – 18 September 2009) was a Polish philosophy historian and philosopher who worked mainly in ethics and epistemology.

Biography

Skarga was born in 1919 at Warsaw to a Calvinist family with gentry roots. Her sister was actress Hanna Skarżanka and brother was Edward Skarga.

Skarga studied philosophy at Wilno University. During World War II, she was a member of the resistance movement Armia Krajowa. In 1944 the Soviet NKVD arrested and sentenced her to ten years at the katorga. Afterwards, she was forced to live at a collective farm. After the war she wrote an anonymous memoir about her time in the gulag.[https://salon.eu.sk/en/archiv/category/authors/barbara__skarga European Salon website]

She returned to Poland in 1955[http://www.ahf.ifispan.pl/en/skarga?p=interpretation Archive of the History of Philosophy website] and graduated in 1957 with a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Warsaw. In 1988 she became a full professor of philosophy.

Skarga was an editor-in-chief of Etyka. In 1995, she was awarded Order of the White Eagle.

Skarga died on 18 September 2009 in Olsztyn, and was buried in Warsaw.{{cite web |title=Skarga, Barbara|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/70687/Skarga-Barbara.htm|work=Traces Of War|access-date=2024-10-07}}

In 2022, the Barbara Skarga Foundation is based in Warsaw and offers a scholarship to unpublished philosophers.[https://www.barbaraskarga.org/content/fundacja-na-rzecz-myslenia-im-barbary-skargi-oglasza-konkurs-o-nagrode-im-barbary-skargi Barbara Skarga Foundation, scholarship page]