About Norbertas Vėlius
Lived 1938 – 1996 (aged 57–58). Norbertas Vėlius was a Lithuanian historian, university teacher, writer, ethnologist and religious studies scholar.
Norbertas Vėlius (1 January 1938 in Gulbės, near Šilalė – 23 June 1996 in Vilnius, buried in the Antakalnis Cemetery) was a Lithuanian folklorist specializing in Lithuanian mythology.
Major works Mitinės lietuvių sakmių būtybės (1977) Laumių dovanos (1979) (translated into Russian as Цветок папоротника: литовские мифологические сказания in 1989, into English as Lithuanian mythological tales in 1998) Senovės baltų pasaulėžiūra (1983) (translated into English as The World Outlook of the Ancient Balts in 1989) Chtoniškasis lietuvių mitologijos pasaulis (1987) Baltų religijos ir mitologijos šaltiniai, 4 volumes (1996–2005).
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Who was Norbertas Vėlius?
Lithuanian folklorist (1938–1996)
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Norbertas Vėlius was born in 1938 in Gulbės.
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Norbertas Vėlius died on 23 June 1996 in Vilnius.
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Norbertas Vėlius was a historian, university teacher, writer, ethnologist and religious studies scholar.
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Norbertas Vėlius was Lithuanian.
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