Vitomir Belaj (November 8, 1937 – August 19, 2023) 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][4]
Belaj died on August 19, 2023, at the age of 85.[5]
Selected works
edit- 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
edit- 1998: Croatian State Award in Science (hr:Državna nagrada za znanost)[6]
- 2006: Milovan Gavazzi Award for lifetime achievement, Croatian Ethnographic Society[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Nagrada 2006.
- ^ Etnolog Vitomir Belaj: zbornik radova povodom 70. rođendana Vitomira Belaja, Zagreb, 2009., ISBN 9789531752787
- ^ a b c "Belaj, Vitomir", Croatian Encyclopaedia (in Croatian), 2021
- ^ Pleterski, Andrej (2024). "Vitomir Belaj". Studia Mythologica Slavica (in Slovenian). 27: 5–6. doi:10.3986/SMS20242701.
- ^ "Jutarnji list - Umro je Vitomir Belaj. čovjek koji je najbolje poznavao hrvatske mitove. Tumačio je da poganska prošlost i kršćanstvo nisu u konfliktu". www.jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). 2023-08-21. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ Državna nagrada za znanost za 1998.
External links
edit- "Belaj, Vitomir", Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian), 1983
- Bibliography, at CROSBI
- "Belaj, Vitomir", Slovenian Biographical Lexicon (in Slovenian), 2017
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