Jan Chojeński

John Chojeński (1486–1538) was a sixteenth-century Polish bureaucrat and church leader.

[2] He was born into the Abdank noble family on 17 March 1486 in the town of Golejówku near Sieradza in Małopolska and earned a doctor of laws at the University of Siena.

A trusted official of King Sigismund I the Old, he defended the privileges of the church and having a doctor of laws focused around Poland's intellectual elite and supported many eminent humanists of his day.

He founded a scholarship to honour Marcin Kromer, allowing a student to study in Padua and supported professor of medicine Joseph Ostrich.

Currently his tombstone is in King John Albert Chapel in Wawel Cathedral (formerly Bożego Ciała).