Adam Chętnik
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Adam Chętnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈxɛntɲik]; born 20 December 1885 in Nowogród; died 29 May 1967 in Warsaw) was a Polish ethnographer who studied the Kurpie. He is the author of several books on the Kurpie residing in Puszcza Zielona. In 1927 he founded Skansen Kurpiowski in Nowogród, an open-air museum dedicated to Kurpie culture. He published over 100 scholarly works. He was also an elected deputy to the Sejm, as well as a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
Works
[edit]- Puszcza Kurpiowska, 1913
- Chata Kurpiowska, 1915
- Życie Puszczańskie Kurpiów
- Mazurskim szlakiem, 1939
- monografie Nowogrodu, Myszyńca, Dąbrówki, Opęchowa.
- Kurpie
- Z Kurpiowskich obozów
- Obrazki i gadki
- Krótki przewodnik po Kurpiach
- Kalendarzyk zwyczajów i obrzędów ludu kurpiowskiego
- O bursztynie i przemyśle bursztyniarskim
References
[edit]- Wrota Podlasia - Adam Chętnik
- Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa im. Adama Chętnika w Jednorożcu
- Marian Pokropek, Adam Chętnik - badacz Kurpiowszczyzny, Ostrołęckie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Muzeum Okręgowe w Ostrołęce, 1992
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[edit]Categories:
- 1885 births
- 1967 deaths
- People from Łomża County
- People from Łomża Governorate
- Popular National Union politicians
- Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1922–1927)
- Polish ethnographers
- Members of the Polish Academy of Learning
- Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Polish academic biography stubs