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Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933

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Personal name headingRasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933
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Variant(s)Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, 1879-1933
Birth date1879-06-07
Death date1933-12-21
Place of birthIlulissat (Greenland)
Place of deathCopenhagen (Denmark)
Profession or occupationExplorers Anthropologists
Found inHis The people of the Polar North, 1908.
LAC internal file, May 24, 2024 (access point: Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933; variant: Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, 1879-1933; Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen; born June 7, 1879 in Jakobshavn (now Ilulissat), Greenland; died December 21, 1933 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist, called the "father of Eskimology"; first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled)
Equivalent(s)Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933
National bib agency no.0103A5710E
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