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Czarnowski Maciej "Sławomir"

Maciej „Sławomir” Czarnowski was born on February 5, 1910, in Warsaw, son of Stanisław and Kazimiera née Ozga. He spent the years 1915-1918 in Moscow, followed by

He graduated from a mathematics and natural sciences high school in Tarnopol, and from 1929 to 1935 he studied at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lviv Polytechnic. After his studies, he worked in the State Forest Protection Service in Tarnobrzeg. Before 1939, he came into contact with the magazine „Zadruga” where he published one article under the pseudonym Sławomir Łada (in No. 6-7/1939).

In 1939, he was not mobilized due to his health condition (he was short-sighted and wore glasses). From March 1940, he worked as a forester in Tarnobrzeg, while also participating in secret teaching. In March 1942, for unknown reasons, he was arrested by the Germans (Gestapo), escaped from the transport to prison, and then hid in Leżajsk until the end of the occupation, where he worked as a laborer in a sawmill, continuing to participate in secret teaching. The Gestapo later arrested his father and wife.

In 1944, after the Germans left, he became the forester in Buda Stalowska near Tarnobrzeg.

In 1945-1946, he worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Forestry of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he obtained his doctorate in 1946 (Ph.D. in forestry). Then, in 1946-1947, he worked at the State Timber Agency „Paged” in Gorzów and Szczecin. In 1948-1951, he was an assistant professor at the Forestry Research Institute in Kraków, in 1951-1953 he worked as an associate professor at the Faculty of Forestry of Jagiellonian University, in 1952-1953 serving as dean there. In 1954-1959 (due to the liquidation of the Forestry Faculty), he worked again as an assistant at the Krakow Forestry Research Institute.

In II 1959, at the invitation of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, he travels to the USA where he works at the university as an assistant professor until 1961. In Baton Rouge, he publishes Dynamics of even-aged forest stands (1961) and Productive capacity of the area as forest land (1964). This last work became the basis for his habilitation at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the University of Warsaw in 1964. In February 1961, he was appointed a member of the Production Location Commission of the Committee for Spatial Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

After returning to the country, he worked at the Institute of Spatial Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences, carrying out contracted work.

In 1948, he joined the PZPR.

In 1960, as "Contact Confidential," Major Karol Waluszkiewicz submitted a written report of his stay in the USA, focusing on general issues (textbooks in the USA are carefully prepared, the phenomenon of duplicate positions is unknown there, and homosexuality is spreading on university campuses).

In 1961 (acquired by Major K. Waluszkiewicz), he agreed to be a contact box for Department I of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, (agreement of March 1, 1961), and was reclassified as an informant codenamed "Odra" the same year. He filed a report on the XIII Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) in Vienna in 1961. (He was a corresponding member of IUFRO since 1961, and from 1964 also the chairman of its Section for Ecological Assessment of Forest Habitat Productivity.) In 1964, the Department I of the Ministry of Internal Affairs returned the "Odra" mailbox files to the Security Service (SB) in Krakow, with the information that it would henceforth be treated as a reserve, and on March 6, 1968, cooperation was discontinued, citing the TW's health condition and unfavorable family circumstances, which is unclear given Czarnowski's activity until late old age.

Since 1968, he has been working as an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Plant Geography at the Institute of Botany, University of Wrocław. During his scientific work at the University of Wrocław, he has supervised 19 master's theses and 6 doctoral dissertations. He founded and headed the Ecological Station of the Institute of Botany in Karpacz.

In 1975, publishes Outline of the Ecology of Land Plants, (2nd ed. 1980) a book that is his magnum opus as a natural scientist.

In the years 1970-1974, he was the chairman of the Provincial Committee for Nature Protection in Wrocław.

In 1980, he retires.

In the 1980s, he founded an informal Society of Slavic Culture Lovers in Wrocław (along with J. Brueckman). In 1979, he wrote and distributed a text in the form of a carbon copy within the Zadruga circle The essence of our cause(revised version 1982), attempting to combine Zadruga ideas with Marxism. In a later letter to T. Szczepański (published and cited in the literature on the subject), he explained his involvement with the PZPR with positivist motivations. However, this and other of his political texts (see bibliography) show that at the time he was close to "national-communist" ideas.

For the use of TMKS and the Zadruga circle, he prepared several lectures and notes, distributed in the form of carbon-paper duplicates (see bibliography).

Prepared by Polish Calendar – a namebook containing a large collection of Slavic names, not published in print.

It was one of the founding members of the Native Faith Association.

He died on 3 March 1997 in Wrocław. The remains were cremated according to the ritual of the Native Faith.

Sources:

Archives

Archive IPN

IPN Kr 00191/3 Czarnowski Maciej, (there, inter alia, a biography from III 1961).

IPN Kr 009/7562/CD Contact box "Odra" regarding Czarnowski Maciej (mostly copies of materials from the previous file)

Literature

Brueckman J. Farewell, "Element" No. 11 (1998);

Grott B. Religion, civilization, development. Around the ideas of Jan Stachniuk, Kraków 2003

Sarosiek J. Assoc. Prof. Dr habil. Maciej Czarnowski (5 II 1910- 3 III 1997) "Botanical News" 42 (1) 1998 pp. 66-67 (there is a bibliography of works)

Suliński J. Maciej Sławomir Czarnowski (1910-1997), forester-ecologist - a tribute on the 10th anniversary of his death, "Acta Agraria et Silvestria" XIV 2007

Wacyk A. Jan Stachniuk 1905-1963. Life and Work, v. 1976, v. 1978, v. 1984, ts.

Wylotek A. Remembrance „Element” No. 11 (1998);

The works of M. S. Czarnowski outside the scope of biology

The essence of our cause (as Sławomir Łada) ts. pow. Ołbin [Wrocław] 1979 (1982)

The Second Saxon Recurrence or the Outbreak of Reactionism in Poland, 1980-1982, duplicated ts. n.d., n.p.

My path to Zadruga thought 1983 duplicated ts.

Slavic calendar, Wrocław 1984, duplicated ts.

Columbus's Egg at the Bend of History, Wrocław 1987, duplicated ts.

The Culture Case, n.p., [Wrocław] photocopy

Letter to T. Szczepański dated 1 November 1989, reprinted in "Trygław", 2000, No. 4

Chronology in the biography of Jan Stachniuk against the background of political events in post-September Poland, “Trygław”, 1998, no.2

Tomasz Szczepański