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Knud Rasmussen

1879 - 1933

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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studies) and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Knud Rasmussen is the 16th most popular anthropologist (down from 13th in 2019), the most popular biography from Greenland and the most popular Anthropologist.

Knud Rasmussen was a Danish explorer who lived from 1879 to 1933. He is most famous for his explorations of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, and his contributions to the understanding of the Inuit people.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Knud Rasmussen ranks 16 out of 93. Before him are Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, Eugène Dubois, and Birutė Galdikas. After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Wilhelm Schmidt.

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Among people born in 1879, Knud Rasmussen ranks 30. Before him are Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Léon Jouhaux, Francis Peyton Rous, Chen Duxiu, Shunroku Hata, and Pál Teleki. After him are Henri Giraud, Karl Bühler, Hans Lammers, E. M. Forster, Ali of Hejaz, and Joseph Wirth. Among people deceased in 1933, Knud Rasmussen ranks 18. Before him are Sándor Ferenczi, Wilhelm Cuno, Nikolai Yudenich, Annie Besant, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and Paul Painlevé. After him are Stefan George, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Oskar Potiorek, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Erhard Heiden, and Frank Jarvis.

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In Greenland

Among people born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1 out of 16. After him are Lars-Emil Johansen (1946), Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938), Hans Enoksen (1956), Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875), Kuupik Kleist (1958), Kim Kielsen (1966), Rasmus Lerdorf (1968), Aleqa Hammond (1965), Jesper Grønkjær (1977), Thue Christiansen (1940), and Múte Bourup Egede (1987).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Greenland

Among anthropologists born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1. 

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