Kaj Birket-Smith
Kaj Birket-Smith (born January 20, 1893 in Copenhagen , † October 28, 1977 in Liselund, Vodskov near Aalborg ) was a Danish geographer and ethnologist .
Life
Birket-Smith worked primarily as an ethnologist and was a specialist in the Inuit and Eyak cultures. In 1921 he took part in Knud Rasmussen's Fifth Thule Expedition . In 1940 he became director of the ethnographic department of the Danish National Museum , where he had worked since 1929. He studied the spread of reindeer herding culture .
Honors
Birket-Smith won the Hans Egede Medal from the Geographical Society of Denmark, the Huxley Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Loubat Prize . He belonged to numerous academies and scientific societies, including the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences , the Norwegian Academy of Sciences , the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies , the Finnish Academy of Sciences and the Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg . The University of Basel , the University of Uppsala and the University of Pennsylvania awarded him an honorary doctorate . He was a knight (1939) and commander (1963) of the Danebrog Order .
Web links
- Kaj Birket-Smith in Dansk biografisk leksikon (Danish)
- Literature by and about Kaj Birket-Smith in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Kaj Birket-Smith in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Kaj Birket-Smith in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Remarks
- ↑ See for example Kaj Birket-Smith: History of Culture. A general ethnology. 3. Edition. Zurich 1956.
- ^ Henry B. Collins, Jr .: Anthropology during the War. II. Scandinavia . In: Blackwell Publishing (Ed.): American Anthropologist . New Series, Vol. 48, No. 1, January-March 1946, pp. 141-144. JSTOR 662818 . , ISSN 0002-7294
- ↑ Named after Joseph Florimond Loubat .
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SURNAME | Birket-Smith, Kaj |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Birket Smith, Kaj; Birket-Smith, Kay; Smith, Kaj B.-; Smith, Kay B.- |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish geographer and ethnologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1893 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1977 |
Place of death | Liselund, Vodskov near Aalborg |