Vitomir Belaj
Croatian ethnologist
Vitomir Belaj (born November 8, 1937, in Maribor, Slovenia; died August 19, 2023, in Zagreb, Croatia) was a Croatian ethnologist.[1][2] In 1979 he received his PhD at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.[3] There was a professor since 1985, and since 2009 as emeritus professor.[3] In his career, Belaj particularly studied ethnological history and mythological background of Slavs and Croats.[3]
Selected works
- Utemeljitelj hrvatske etnologije dr. Antun Radić (1966) (master's thesis)
- Kultni vrtići u Jugoslaviji i njihov etnološki okvir (1979) (doctoral dissertation)
- Die Kunde vom kroatischen Volk. Eine Kulturgeschichte der kroatischen Volkskunde (1998) ISBN 3928624571
- Hod kroz godinu. Mitska pozadina hrvatskih narodnih običaja i vjerovanja (1998, 2007) ISBN 9789532123340
- Sveti trokuti. Topografija hrvatske mitologije (with Juraj Belaj; 2014) ISBN 978-953-6927-74-6
Awards
- 1998: Croatian State Award in Science (hr:Državna nagrada za znanost)[4]
- 2006: Milovan Gavazzi Award for lifetime achievement, Croatian Ethnographic Society[1]
References
External links
- "Belaj, Vitomir", Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian), 1983
- Bibliography, at CROSBI
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