Vitomir Belaj (November 8, 1937 – August 19, 2023) was a Croatian ethnologist.Etnolog Vitomir Belaj: zbornik radova povodom 70. rođendana Vitomira Belaja, Zagreb, 2009., 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 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 SocietyNagrada 2006.
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