Karol Daniel Kadłubiec

Karol Daniel Kadłubiec

Karol Daniel Kadłubiec
Born (1937-07-22) July 22, 1937
Karpentná, Czechoslovakia
Ethnicity Polish
Citizenship Czechoslovak, Czech
Occupation Ethnographer, folklorist, historian

Prof. Dr Hab. Karol Daniel Kadłubiec (born 22 July 1937 in Karpętna) is a Polish ethnographer, folklorist and historian from the Zaolzie region of the Czech Republic. He specializes also in ethnology, history of language and dialectology, and in a studies of culture, folklore and language of Cieszyn Silesia and Zaolzie.

Kadłubiec graduated from Polish elementary school in Bystrzyca, Polish gymnasium in Czeski Cieszyn in 1955 and then from Slavic philology at the Charles' University in Prague in 1960. He earned a professor degree in 1994.

He works at a Pedagogical Institute at the University of Ostrava from 1964 and later worked at the Charles' University in Prague as a head of department of Polish studies and folkloristic. Kadłubiec is a head of Institute for Studies of Polish Ethnic in the Czech Republic at the University of Ostrava from 1990. He was a co-founder of ethnology department at the Silesian University in Cieszyn and co-founder and head of Folkloristic Section of General Committee of PZKO.

Kadłubiec is also active member of PZKO (Polish Educational and Cultural Union) and from 1965 is a chairman of MK PZKO Mistrzowice.

He is author of several books and of about 600 scientific discourses and articles and long-time contributor to Zwrot magazine.

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