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PROF. HANS PEDR. STEENSBY, whose death at the early age of forty-five is announced by the Times, was professor of geography in the University of Copenhagen. He was chiefly known for his researches on the Eskimo in relation to their environment, most of which appeared in Meddelelser om Grønland, and included “Contributions to the Ethnology and Anthropogeography of the Polar Eskimos” (1910) and “An Anthropogeographical Study of the Origin of Eskimo Culture” (1917). Prof. Steensby came to the conclusion that the Eskimo were originally an inland people dwelling in the tundra, probably in the vicinity of the Great Slave Land and Coronation Gulf, and that their culture was originally an Indian hunting culture adapted later to the conditions of the Arctic shores. He also wrote on the early voyages of the Norsemen, and was returning from America, where he had been in connection with his investigations into this subject, when his sudden death at sea occurred.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 287 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106287b0
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