Kaj Birket-Smith

Kaj Birket-Smith (20 January 1893 – 28 October 1977) was a Danish philologist and anthropologist.

He specialized in studying the habits and language of the Inuit and Eyak.

In 1940, he became director of the Ethnographic Department of the National Museum of Denmark.

[1] Kaj Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife, Ludovica (born Nielsen).

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Anthropologist Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1906–2004) [1] at a 1937 symposium with Kaj Birket-Smith (right), where they presented a joint paper on Alaskan ethnology.
Sophus Birket-Smith