CHOJNACKI, Stanislaw, Knight of the Order of Malta.
Professor, librarian, art historian, and horticulturist.
Passed away peacefully July 3rd 2010 at the Sudbury Regional Hospital, aged 95.
Born 21 October, 1915 in Riga, Latvia. Son of Aleksander and Wanda, née Sadowska.

Stanislaw obtained his law degree at Warsaw University in 1937. Military service in the Polish Army in 1937-1938. In 1938-1939, studied law at Sorbonne in Paris. He took part in the defense of Poland during invasion of the country by Germany in September of 1939. From October 1939 until May 1945, he was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.

From 1945 until 1950, he worked in book publishing for the Polish YMCA in Rome. In 1950, he studied at the Université de Montréal, and obtained MA in Slavic Studies. From 1950 until 1976 he lived in Ethiopia, where he first held the position of the Chief Librarian at the University College in Addis Ababa, school organized and run by the Canadian Jesuit Fathers. He then served as Librarian of the Haile Sellassie Institute of Ethiopian Studies. From 1976 until his retirement, he was Associate Professor and Director of the Library, University of Sudbury.

An eminent authority on Ethiopian art, he published several books and articles on that subject, and gave numerous lectures at European and American Universities and museums. Recognized as a horticulturist, he was president for many years of the Horticultural Society of Ethiopia.

He was a generous donor for the John-Paul 2nd Catholic University in Lublin, Poland, where he established a number of student scholarships.

Stanislaw will be greatly missed by his sister Zofia Pratkowska and her family in Poland, by his nephew Dr. Henry Sadowski and his wife Grace in Vancouver, by his niece Justine Chojnacka in Bayfield Ontario, by his many nieces and nephews in Poland and Canada.

A citizen of the world, he will be sorely missed by his many friends in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.