Józef Ludwik Zając (1891-1963); student of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1915, he completed his doctoral studies, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1914, he joined the Polish Legions, initially serving in the 3rd Infantry Regiment as commander of a platoon, company, battalion and regiment. He served in the Carpathian, Bessarabian and Volyn campaigns, and was wounded twice. On 15th March 1918, he moved with General Jozef Haller's Second Brigade to Ukraine, after which he served as commander of the 15th Rifle Regiment in the Second Polish Corps. On 11th May 1918, in the battle of Kaniów, he was taken prisoner by the Germans, from which he escaped by making his way to France. After returning home, he was sent to the front of the ongoing Polish-Soviet War. During the September Campaign, he was Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force and Anti-Aircraft Defence, then became Commander of the Polish Air Force in France. After the fall of France and his arrival in the United Kingdom, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the I Corps in Scotland. A year later he took command of the Polish Army in the Middle East. Subsequently, he was deputy commander of the Polish Army in the East and then commander of the I Armoured Motor Corps in Scotland. After demobilisation in 1948, he settled in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he began his studies in psychology and art history, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree in psychology for the second time in 1951. In 1957 he moved to Canada. He was a lecturer at British, American and Canadian universities, an acknowledged expert in the visual arts and a collector of works of art -108 paintings and 1,765 prints he donated to the Silesian Museum in Katowice. He was awarded, among others, the Order of Virtuti Militari. He died in Ottawa and was buried at Notre-Dame Cemetery.