Today's Birthdays

one click shows all of today's celebrity birthdays

Browse All Birthdays

43,625    Actors
27,931    Actresses
4,867    Composers
7,058    Directors
842    Footballers
221    Racing drivers
925    Singers
9,111    Writers

Get FamousLikeMe on your website
One line of code gets FamousLikeMe on your website. Find out more.

Subscribe to Daily updates


Add to Google

privacy policy



Famous Like Me > Writer > R > Knud Rasmussen

Profile of Knud Rasmussen on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Knud Rasmussen  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 7th June 1879
   
Place of Birth: Ilulissat, Greenland
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (June 7, 1879–December 21, 1933) was a Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist.

Rasmussen was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland. When on his first expedition in 1902–1904, "The Literature Expedition" with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen to examine Inuit culture. In 1910 he established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York (Uummannaq), Greenland as a base. He went on several expeditions between 1912 and 1919, including travelling over the Viscount Melville Sound and crossing the Northwest Passage by dogsled.

From 1921 to 1924 he went on his famous "The Great Sled Journey" to collect and describe Inuit songs and legends. For that effort he gained a post at the University of Copenhagen.

He was also patron of the first long polar movie "SOS Iceberg" (directed by Leni Riefenstahl).

This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Knud Rasmussen