Vitomir Belaj

Croatian ethnologist

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

1998: Croatian State Award in Science (hr:Državna nagrada za znanost)^[4]
2006: Milovan Gavazzi Award for lifetime achievement, Croatian Ethnographic Society^[1]

References

^ ^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
^ Državna nagrada za znanost za 1998.