Knud rasmussen biography

          Knud Rasmussen (born June 7, , Jakobshavn, Greenland—died December 21, , Gentofte, Denmark) was a....

          Knud Rasmussen

          Danish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.
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          Country: Denmark

          Biography of Knud Rasmussen

          Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen () was a Danish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.

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        1. Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist.
        2. Knud Rasmussen (born June 7, , Jakobshavn, Greenland—died December 21, , Gentofte, Denmark) was a.
        3. Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist.
        4. Knud Rasmussen devoted his life to the study of Inuit people, their language, culture and history and this earned him the title of "the father of Eskimology".

          5. He was born on June 7, , in Greenland, to a Danish Protestant pastor, Christian Rasmussen, and a Greenlandic woman named Louise Fleischer. Growing up, Knud spent his childhood surrounded by his Inuit peers and often visited their homes.

          As a young boy, he learned to paddle a kayak, handle a dog sled at the age of 7, and went hunting with adult Greenlanders by the age of He was skilled in using a harpoon and could build kayaks, sleds, and snow igloos.

          In , Knud's father received a small parish in northern Denmark, and the family moved there to provide Knud with a better education.

          Initially, he struggled as he knew the Inuit language better than Danish, but he quickly learned Danish and excelled in his studies. In , Knud gra