Vitomir Belaj

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. In his career, Belaj particularly studied ethnological history and mythological background of Slavs and Croats.

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 etnoloÅ¡ki 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 ()
• 2006: Milovan Gavazzi Award for lifetime achievement, Croatian Ethnographic Society

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