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Knud Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen

Greenlandic-Danish explorer and anthropologist
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,... Wikipedia
Born: June 7, 1879, Ilulissat, Greenland
Died: December 21, 1933 (age 54 years), Copenhagen, Denmark
Spouse: Dagmar Andersen (m. 1908–1933)
Nationality: Danish and Greenlandic