Andrzej Zajączkowski

Andrzej Zajączkowski (May 27, 1922 in Lublin – December 16, 1994 in Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and Africanist. In 1978 he was made a professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw; he was made director of the Center for Studies on Non-European Countries (Polish Academy of Sciences) in 1981. He specialized in historical sociology and the sociology of developing countries. He lectured at universities in Ghana and Uganda.

Works

His most notable works include

• Główne elementy kultury szlacheckiej w Polsce. Ideologia a struktury społeczne (1961)
• Niepodległość Konga a kolonializm belgijski (1968)
• Muntu dzisiaj. Studium afrykanistyczne (1970)
• Szlachta polska. Kultura i struktura (1993).