Giovanni Battista Bronzini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giovanni Battista Bronzini

Italian historian and anthropologist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1925

Place of Birth: Matera, Basilicata, Italy

Date of Death: 17-Mar-2002

Profession: historian, anthropologist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Giovanni Battista Bronzini (4 September 1925 in Matera – 17 March 2002 in Bari) was an Italian anthropologist and historian of Italian folk traditions. He was a student at the University of Rome, where he learned from Paolo Toschi, a famous philologist and historian of folk traditions.
He then became Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bari and, from 1974, he became director of anthropological studies journal Lares, until his death in 2002.A literary scholar, Bronzini explained magical and superstitious peasant culture of the 1930s and 1940s and the traditions of rural Italy.
Through the works of writer Carlo Levi and poet Rocco Scotellaro, he studied and described the culture of his region and the surrounding area. In 2012, the town of Accentura, in the Basilicata region, named the main square after him, in honor of his contributions and studies on the area and its traditions.