Adam Chętnik

Adam Chętnik (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

 * 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