Michalski was a member of an order of missionary priests. From 1918 he was a professor of philosophy at—from 1931 rector of— Kraków's Jagiellonian University. From 1927 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.^[2]

Michalski was a leading Polish student of medieval philosophy. The chief object of his studies was late, especially 14th-century, Scholasticism and Nominalism in Poland.^[3]

• Tomizm w Polsce na przełomie XV i XVI w. (Thomism in Poland at the Turn of the 15th and 16th Centuries; 1911)
• Odrodzenie nominalizmu w XIV w. (The Rebirth of Nominalism in the 14th Century; 1926).^[4]

• History of philosophy in Poland
• List of Poles

• "Michalski, Konstanty," Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, vol. 3, 1975, p. 104.