Mirko Ramovš

Mirko Ramovš (October 5, 1935 – May 19, 2023), also known as Bogomir Ramovš, was a Slovene ethnochoreologist.

Life Mirko Ramovš was born in Ljubljana. He graduated from the classical high school in Ljubljana in 1954, and in 1960 he received a bachelor's degree from the Slavic Department of the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He spent his professional career (since 1986 as an expert advisor) at the Ethnomusicology Institute (from 1972 to 1994 the Section for Ethnomusicology within the Slovenian Ethnography Institute) at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was the head of the institute from 1985 to 1990). From 1965 to 2010, he was the artistic director of the France Marolt Student Folkdance Group . He also received the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Research Center gold medal (2001), the Zois Award for lifetime achievement in ethnochoreology (2002), and the Štrekelj Award (2009).