Ethnographer, folklorist

Adam Bahdanovich

Адам Багдановіч1862–1940

Adam Bahdanovich (1862–1940) was a Belarusian ethnographer and folklorist, and the father of the poet Maksim Bahdanovich. He gathered his material himself in the villages of central Belarus. His 1895 essay on the pre-Christian worldview that lived on in the rites, charms and beliefs of the Belarusian peasantry remains a classic of Belarusian ethnography.