Vitomir Belaj

Vitomir Belaj (born November 8, 1937 in Maribor, Slovenia) is 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

References
  1. Nagrada 2006.
  2. Etnolog Vitomir Belaj: zbornik radova povodom 70. rođendana Vitomira Belaja, Zagreb, 2009., ISBN 9789531752787
  3. "Belaj, Vitomir", Croatian Encyclopaedia (in Croatian), 2021
  4. Državna nagrada za znanost za 1998.


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