About Vitomir Belaj
Lived 1937 – 2023 (aged 85). Vitomir Belaj was a Slovenian, Croatian and Yugoslav ethnologist and germanist.
Vitomir Belaj (November 8, 1937 – August 19, 2023) was a Croatian ethnologist. In 1979 he received his PhD at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. There was a professor since 1985, and since 2009 as emeritus professor.
Belaj died on August 19, 2023, at the age of 85.
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) Hod kroz godinu. Mitska pozadina hrvatskih narodnih običaja i vjerovanja (1998, 2007) Sveti trokuti. Topografija hrvatske mitologije (with Juraj Belaj; 2014)
Awards 1998: Croatian State Award in Science (:hr:Državna nagrada za znanost) 2006: Milovan Gavazzi Award for lifetime achievement, Croatian Ethnographic Society
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Croatian ethnologist and germanist (1937-2023)
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Vitomir Belaj was born on 8 November 1937 in Maribor.
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Vitomir Belaj died on 19 August 2023 in Zagreb.
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