Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933
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Intellectual culture of the Copper Eskimosbook chapter 1932
- Summary
- Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
- Born
- 1879-06-07 [2][7]
- Birth Place
- Ilulissat [2][7]
- Died
- 1933-12-21 [2][7]
- Death Place
- Kopenhagen [2]
- Gentofte Hospital [7]
- Country
- Denmark [2]
- Language
- Danish [3]
- Occupation
- explorer [7]
- anthropologist [7]
- ethnologist [7]
- writer [7]
- polar explorer [7]
- Employer
- Kristeligt Dagblad [7]
- Educated at
- University of Copenhagen [7]
- Country of Education
- Denmark [7]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [7]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [7]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library and Archives of Québec
- 6. Danish Bibliographic Centre
- 7. Wikidata
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