List of ethnologists

Sven Anders Hedin (1865–1952 in Stockholm), Swedish geographer, explorer in Central Asia, travel writer, photographer and illustrator of his own works

This list of ethnologists , sorted by surname, includes recognized ethnologists (ethnologists) and other specialists who have made significant contributions to ethnology (department of anthropology , the science of man). The occupation or job title for ethnologists is not uniform, in earlier times they were sometimes called ethnographers (“people descriptors”). Internationally, the designation as social anthropologists or generalizing as anthropologists is common, in the USA they are referred to as cultural anthropologists , which in Europe, however, means folklorists (European ethnology).

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Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos (1815 in Constantinople; 1891 in Athens), Greek historian and publicist, is considered the founder of modern Greek historiography

Paul Maas (1880 in Frankfurt am Main; 1964 in Oxford), German classical philologist and Byzantinist, known for his work on Greek metrics and textual criticism

Mungo Park (1771 in Scotland; 1806 in Nigeria), British traveler to Africa

Henry Morton Stanley (1841 in Wales; 1904 in London), British-American journalist, African explorer and author

V enceslaus U lricus Hammershaimb (1819 on the Faroe Islands; 1909 in Copenhagen), Faroese pastor and philologist, founder of the modern Faroese written language

Karl Martin Alexander Helbig (* 1903 in Hildesheim; † 1991 in Hamburg), German geographer, ethnologist and researcher in Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Central America

Eliezer Ben-Jehuda (1858 in the Russian Empire; 1922 in Jerusalem), Russian-Jewish journalist and author of the first modern Hebrew dictionary

Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809 in Mansfeld; 1864 in Java), German doctor, geologist, botanist and surveyor in Indonesia and the Dutch East Indies

Paul Kane (1810 in Ireland; 1871 in Canada), Canadian painter of Irish descent, famous for his paintings of North American Indians

Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884 in Finland), Finnish writer, philologist and doctor

Ibn Chaldūn (1332 in Tunis; 1406 in Cairo), Islamic historian and politician

Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754 near Danzig; 1794 in Paris), German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer in the South Seas, journalist and revolutionary during the Enlightenment

Sami Frashëri (1850 in Albania; 1904 in Istanbul), Albanian writer and important activist of the Albanian national movement in the late 19th century