He completed his studies in Poland and at Louvain. He then taught philosophy at the seminary of his Congregation in Cracow and, from 1914, at the Jagiellonian University. He served as dean of the Faculty of Theology and rector of the University, member of the Polish Academy of Cracow and of the Pontifical Roman Academy of St Thomas, president of the Commission for the Corpus philosophorum medii aevi established by the International Union of Academies in Brussels, and member of the Commission for the Corpus platonicum. In 1934 he was chosen to preside over the new “Societas Thomistarum Regionum Slavorum.” In November 1939, during the German occupation of Poland, he was arrested; he endured seven months of deportation in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and only after the war could he resume his teaching at the University.
His numerous and meticulous publications—issued in Polish, German, and French—enjoyed wide resonance. Particularly noteworthy are his various essays in the latter language, mostly drawn from the Bulletin de l'Académie polonaise des Sciences et des Lettres (Cracow), which draw on extensive manuscript material and make original contributions to the understanding of the philosophical currents of the fourteenth century, especially those flourishing in Paris and Oxford. A great admirer of Dante, he devoted several fine studies to him and concluded his career with the preface to the Polish translation of the Divina Commedia by A. Sivierska.