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Knud Rasmussen

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Also known as Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Knud Victor Rasmussen

Danish explorer and anthropologist

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Knud Rasmussen was a male person born on 1879-06-07 and died on 1933-12-21. He is associated with the genre c64 remix and is linked to the area of Colorado. His full name is listed as Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen.

Rasmussen is an author with a work count of 86. His top works include "Grönländska myter och sagor", "Neue Menschen", "Kavdlunâtsiait kalâtdlit nunâliarkârnermingnik okalugtualiaisa", "Fra Grønland til Stillehavet, rejser og mennesker", and "Under nordenvindens svøbe". Other sources indicate a work count of 5 and 1.

He has been referenced by 650 other encyclopedia articles. On Last.fm, his name is associated with 14 listeners and a playcount of 54.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1879
Died
1933
Works
86

Top works

  • Grönländska myter och sagor
  • Neue Menschen
  • Kavdlunâtsiait kalâtdlit nunâliarkârnermingnik okalugtualiaisa
  • Fra Grønland til Stillehavet, rejser og mennesker
  • Under nordenvindens svøbe

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Colorado
Active from
1976-10-05
c64 remix

Discography

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
14
Total plays
54

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Knud+Rasmussen">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Knud Rasmussen

Key facts

Born
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen , ( 1879-06-07 ) 7 June 1879, Jacobshavn , North Greenland
Died
21 December 1933 (1933-12-21) (aged 54), Copenhagen , Denmark
Known for
Polar exploration and eskimology
Spouse
Dagmar Andersen ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1908 ) ​
Awards
Daly Medal Founder's Medal Hans Egede Medal Vega Medal
Fields
Anthropology

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Knud Rasmussen, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

~8 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (/ˈræsmʊsən/; 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.

Early years

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Knud Rasmussen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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