ANTHROPOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Knud Rasmussen has received more than 388,396 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Knud Rasmussen is the 13th most popular anthropologist (up from 16th 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 13 out of 93. Before him are Paul Broca, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, and Clifford Geertz. After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, and Mary Leakey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Knud Rasmussen ranks 32. Before him are Italo Gariboldi, Henri Giraud, Ali of Hejaz, An Jung-geun, Victor Sjöström, and Fritz Haarmann. After him are Hans Lammers, Léon Jouhaux, Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, Franz Reichelt, and Karl Bühler. Among people deceased in 1933, Knud Rasmussen ranks 17. Before him are Mohammed Nadir Shah, Nikolai Yudenich, Annie Besant, Wilhelm Cuno, Stefan George, and Princess Thyra of Denmark. After him are Oskar Potiorek, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Erhard Heiden, Kenji Miyazawa, Hipólito Yrigoyen, and Paul Painlevé.

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In Greenland

Among people born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1 out of 16. After him are Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875), Hans Enoksen (1956), Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938), Rasmus Lerdorf (1968), Kim Kielsen (1966), Jesper Grønkjær (1977), Kuupik Kleist (1958), Thue Christiansen (1940), Lars-Emil Johansen (1946), Aleqa Hammond (1965), and Naja Marie Aidt (1963).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Greenland

Among anthropologists born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1. 

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