Author: Knud Rasmussen
Alternate names: Knud J. Rasmussen; Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen; Knud J. V. Rasmussen; Knud 1879-1933 Rasmussen
Born: 1879
Died: 1933
Bio: 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.