Jan Stanisław Bystroń (born October 20, 1892 in Cracow, died November 18, 1964 in Warsaw) - Polish ethnographer and sociologist, professor at universities in Poznań, Cracow and Warsaw, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research focused on Polish culture, folklore and folk art. He believed that ethnographic research should be conducted in a limited time and place. In his work Introduction to Polish Folklore Studies (1926), he defined the issues of ethnography, its relation to other sciences, and gave a systematics for professional and ethnic groups. Analyzing works of Old Polish literature, he presented a panorama of the social, family, political and military life of Poland in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries (Dzieje obyczajów w dawnej Polsce. Wiek XVI-XVIII, 1933, 2 volumes). He dealt with the concepts of Polish sociology until the beginning of the 20th century. He was the first in Poland to recognize comedy as a sociological phenomenon. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, he conducted research on Polish traces in Algeria and the Middle East, resulting in the work Poles in the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt, 1141-1914 (1930).
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