Bronislava Kerbelytė

Bronislava Kerbelytė (January 27, 1935 – November 5, 2024) was Lithuanian folklorist, professor.

Biography Bronislava Kerbelytė was born in , then Žemaitkiemis valsčius, interbellum Lithuania. In 1958 she graduated from the Philological department of the Moscow State University. During 1958–2000 she worked at the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (since 1990 in Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, an independent institute split off the ILLL). From 1995 she taught at the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (professor since 1999).

All her scientific research was devoted to Lithuanian folklore. She systematized about 85,000 items of Lithuanian folklore (four volumes of Lietuvių pasakojamosios tautosakos katalogas, 1999–2009