Adam Chętnik
# Adam Chętnik

Adam Chętnik (Polish pronunciation:; 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
