The article concerns some little-known facts in the history of Polish philosophy regarding the reception of the work of Schelling in Poland (or more correctly, in Galicia, because the country was then still under the partitions). The copious work of the German Romantic philosopher aroused the interest of Marian Zdziechowski (1861-1938), the Polish philologist, philosopher, religious thinker, and professor at the Jagiellonian University until the outbreak of World War II; and, more interestingly, it was understood by him. In his two-volume opus magnum Pessimism, romanticism and the foundations of Christianity (Krakow 1914), Zdziechowski devoted much space to Schelling, not only by interpreting him in the context of Romantic thought, but above all, by seeing him as a philosopher who anticipated the issues and problems faced by the renewal movement within the Catholic Church known as „religious modernism.” Recalling Zdziechowski’s position a hundred years ago can thus be considered part of the contemporary reception of the thought of Schelling.