Adam Chętnik

Adam Chętnik (; 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.

In the first years of the independence of Poland, with the establishment of the Polish Second Republic he was a member of the Sejm of the 1st term (1922–1927) on behalf of the Popular National Union. As a member of parliament from the Łomża region, he sat on committees dealing with regional affairs: forest management, regulation of the Narew River, economic and educational issues, and defended the interests of the region by submitting motions and parliamentary interpellations[10]. After the end of the Sejm term, he withdrew from political activity and devoted himself to scientific work. Provided by Wikipedia