Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (20 February 1886 – 2 September 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist.

[6] Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, called the journey the "finest ever performed by dogs.

"[7] Freuchen wrote personal accounts of this journey (and others) in Vagrant Viking (1953) and I Sailed with Rasmussen (1958).

[8] While in Denmark, Freuchen and Rasmussen held a series of lectures about their expeditions and the Inuit culture.

Freuchen strongly criticized the Christian church which sent missionaries among the Inuit without understanding their culture and traditions.

He was also employed by the film industry as a consultant and scriptwriter, specializing in Arctic-related scripts, most notably MGM's Oscar-winning Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent starring Ray Mala, and featuring Freuchen as Ship Captain.

The film is based on Freuchen's novels Der Eskimo and Die Flucht ins weisse Land.

They later honored his memory by planting an oak tree and creating an Inuksuk (a type of stone landmark or cairn) near the place where he left Denmark for Greenland in 1906.

During World War II, Freuchen was actively involved with the Danish resistance movement against the occupation by Nazi Germany despite having lost his left foot to frostbite in 1926.

He was first married in 1911 to Navarana Mequpaluk (d. 1921), an Inuk woman who died in the Spanish Flu epidemic after bearing two children (a boy named Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk (1916 – c. 1962) and a girl named Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika (1918–1999)[13]).

[10] He died of a heart attack three days later at the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska.