Hans Peder Steensby
Danish geographer
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Hans Peder Steensby's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of Copenhagen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hans Peder Steensby was an ethnographer, geographer and professor at the University of Copenhagen. Career Steensby was born into a family of farmers. His original name was Hans Peder Jensen, but in 1902 he changed his name to Steensby, the name of the parish where he was born. After completing his education in 1900 he moved to Copenhagen and became a teacher. In 1908 he travelled to Algeria and Tunisia, where he studied the culture of the nomads. In 1909 he lived among the Greenlandic Inuit of the Cape York area. In 1911 he became professor of Geography at the Copenhagen University. In 1913 he made a research trip to Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
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- Gronland i Tohundredaaret for Hans Egedes Landing (1922) (7)
- Arctic Geography and Eskimo Culture: A Review of Steensby's Work@@@An Anthropogeographical Study of the Origin of the Eskimo Culture (1920) (4)
- The Norsemen's Route from Greenland to Wineland@@@The Norse Discovery of America (1)
- A Brief Geographical Study of Denmark@@@Danmarks Natur (1922) (0)
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