Vitomir Belaj (born November 8, 1937, in Maribor,

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

) is a

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ethnologist Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...

. In 1979 he received his PhD at

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb ( Croatian: ''Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu'') is one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb. History The Faculty of Philosophy is the oldest fac ...

. 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.

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)Državna nagrada za znanost za 1998.
/ref> *2006: Milovan Gavazzi Award for lifetime achievement, Croatian Ethnographic SocietyNagrada 2006.
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* * 1937 births Living people Croatian ethnologists Writers from Maribor {{ethnologist-stub