26 Forgotten Chemist Of Lancut And Pioneer Of Probiotics

Biographical book about  author's maternal grandfather: Dr.W.S. Kindraczuk, Forgotten Chemist of Lancut and Pioneer of Probiotics (2018) who discovered a new probiotic bacteria “Bacillus carpathicus” in 1912 at the University in Vienna. Dr. Kindraczuk was born in the province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in an ethnically mixed family: Ukrainian (father) and Polish-German (mother). When Romana began to research her family history in 2002 there were few online sources. She started her research in libraries in Toronto but then travelled to libraries and archives in Ukraine, Poland, and Austria. She researched the genealogical records of her grandparents and visited the birth places of her parents and ancestors in Poland and western Ukraine.

Dr. Romana M. Bahry is Professor Emerita in the faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. She was born in Salzburg, Austria and arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax in February 1948 as an infant with her parents who were World War 2 refugees. They joined her father’s uncle in Hamilton who had immigrated earlier to Canada from Poland in the 1920s. She obtained her B.A. Honours degree in French and Russian and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto. After three years as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, she began to teach at York University in 1972, where she specialized in Comparative Slavic Literatures (Ukrainian, Russian) and English, Central and East European Film and Culture, and European Studies. She is fluent in English, French, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian and has a reading knowledge of Latin and German. Dr. Bahry has a son, two daughters and five grandchildren.