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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 352,333 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Knud Rasmussen is the 16th most popular anthropologist (up from 17th 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 69Before him are Paul Broca, Clifford Geertz, Gregory Bateson, Eugène Dubois, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. After him are A. L. Kroeber, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Mary Leakey, and Richard Leakey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Knud Rasmussen ranks 44Before him are Friedrich Adler, Léon Jouhaux, Ali of Hejaz, Shunroku Hata, Boris Savinkov, and Huda Sha'arawi. After him are Margaret Sanger, Wanda Landowska, William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, Max Schreck, and Edward Steichen. Among people deceased in 1933, Knud Rasmussen ranks 22Before him are Stefan George, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, Paul Ehrenfest, Erhard Heiden, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and Albert Calmette. After him are Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Henry Royce, Francesc Macià, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Hans Vaihinger.

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In Greenland

Among people born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1 out of 11After him are Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875), Rasmus Lerdorf (1968), Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938), Kim Kielsen (1966), Lars-Emil Johansen (1946), Jesper Grønkjær (1977), Kuupik Kleist (1958), Aleqa Hammond (1965), Hans Enoksen (1956), and Naja Marie Aidt (1963).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Greenland

Among anthropologists born in Greenland, Knud Rasmussen ranks 1