Adam Chętnik
Adam Chętnik (Polish pronunciation: [ˈadam ˈxɛntɲik]; born December 20, 1885, in Nowogród, died May 29, 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.

Adam Chętnik
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
 
References
    
- 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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