Z dziejów wileńskiego ośrodka etnograficznego w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym: w stronę profesjonalnych badań terenowych pogranicza polsko-litewsko-białoruskiego
ENThe Vilnius ethnography centre was active for sixteen years in the interwar period, from the time when Dr Cezaria Ehrenkreutz began lectures in ethnology and ethnography at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. It had the greatest achievements in documenting the culture of the Vilnius region. Equal stress was placed on teaching and research, providing students with greater possibilities of researching folk culture. Jan Stanisław Bystroń and Adam Fischer saw the founding of the Ethnographic Museum at the Department of Ethnology of the University as Cezaria Ehrenkreutz’s most important organizational achievement. Ehrenkreutz was aware of the need for ethnographic research in the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarus borderland. Her successor, Professor Kazimierz Moszyński, was an eminent teacher, who gathered around him many young ethnographers - Poles, Lithuanians, Belarusians, Jews, Karaims (Karaites). The centre included a student scientific circle of ethnologists and the Academic Circle of Friends of Belarusian Studies. These groups devoted themselves to preparing bibliographic works, collecting field material, obtaining exhibits for the museum collection and linguistic research. After the Second World War, the teaching and research methods of the Vilnius centre were developed at the University of Warsaw where Witold Dynowski held the Chair of Ethnography.
