My brother, Zygmunt Zamoyski, who has died aged 74, was a teacher who lived in England for most of his life but, directly after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, left Britain for Poland. There he taught the first generation of free Polish students about the values of democracy, and presented the history and culture of Europe from a western perspective. He taught in different parts of Poland, including Poznan, Warsaw and Zamosc, in colleges of further education.
Born in London, son of Count Andrew Zamoyski and Priscilla Stucley, Zygmunt was educated at Stowe school and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read modern history. With an English mother and a Polish father, Zygmunt was brought up to appreciate both cultures.
After graduating, inspired by a talk by the politician RA Butler to Oxford students about penal reform, Zygmunt worked in borstals and the prison service. He then went to teach English in Malaysia. On his return, he studied for the bar, but eventually, after various jobs, returned to teaching and also worked as a freelance journalist. He taught in schools in the East End of London and later in the west country, before going to Poland.
Although he arrived there knowing only a smattering of Polish, he learned the language well enough to give lectures in Polish and to write for the Polish press. He helped his communist-indoctrinated students to develop a new, European identity. He also campaigned through the press and on television to abolish old practices such as cheating in exams, which had become tolerated and even encouraged throughout Poland during the communist era.
As Zygmunt wrote in The Warsaw Voice: "If Polish education and educational qualifications are to be respected in the English-speaking west, this cheating cancer must be attended to as a matter of urgency, nationwide, and the sooner the better."
When he retired from teaching in 2005 Zygmunt married Patricia Grobow and went to live with her in Long Island, New York. She and I survive him.