Adam Chętnik
Polish ethnographer
Born on: December 20, 1885Died on: May 29, 1967
Aged: 81 years 160 days (977 months)
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Adam Chętnik 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.
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