Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Discovery, Exploration, Social Science, Geography
- Subcategories: Explorers, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Scandinavian History
Article abstract: A pioneer Arctic explorer, Rasmussen was best known for his seven Thule expeditions. In the fifth, the most famous of these, he crossed North America from Greenland to the Bering Strait. A celebrated ethnographer, Rasmussen studied the folkways of the Eskimos and published many works about the peoples and places of Arctic America.
Early Life
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was born on June 7, 1879, in the Lutheran parsonage at Jakobshavn, Greenland. This Danish settlement was situated halfway up the western coast of Greenland. The eldest...
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