William Thalbitzer
William C. Thalbitzer (February 5, 1873, Helsingør – September 18, 1958 i Usserød,) was a Danish philologist and professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen. He studied Danish, English and Latin at the university, but after graduating in 1899 he decided to focus on "exotic" languages. In 1900 he spent a year in Ilulissat in western Greenland studying the Greenlandic language.[1] From 1905 to 1907 he with his wife spent eighteen months among the natives in Tasiilaq, one of the most isolated places on the coast of eastern Greenland.[2] In 1920 the University of Copenhagen established a permanent lecture position for Thalbitzer in "Greenlandic (Eskimo) language and culture".[3] In 1952 he was made an honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen.[4]
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Publications
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- William Thalbitzer at Find in a Library
References
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Notes
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- ↑ Eskimology and Arctic Studies
- ↑ Æresdoktor ved Københavns Universitet
External links
- William Thalbitzer, photographs from Greenland
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