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Knud Paludan
Knud John Paludan (2 November 1908 – 11 September 1988) was a Danish zoologist. He participated in Danish expedition into Iran and Afghanistan and conducted museum as a curator and conducted field studies on seabirds and pheasants. Paludan was born in Svanninge to Else Marie Rasmussen (1877-1950) and Otto Edvard Paludan (1879-1952). He was sent to the Herlufsholm boarding school and then a received a master's degree in zoology in 1933. He travelled to Iran on an ornithological expedition in 1935. Finding that there was no work, he studied medicine and became a doctor at Christiansø in 1941. He also began to study birds and in 1947-49, he took part in the Danish Henning Haslund-Christensen expedition into Afghanistan as ornithologist and physician. He received a PhD for his studies on Silver and Herring gulls in 1951, after which he worked at the Wildlife Biological Station, Kalø and from 1962 he worked at the Forestry Museum, Hørsholm. In 1936 he examined the collections made f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Olufsen
Ole Olufsen (24 January 1865 – 13 December 1929) was a Danish military officer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions in the 1890s to the Emirate of Bukhara, including the Pamir Mountains. He also served as Secretary of the Royal Danish Geographical Society. Olufsen was a proponent of the idea that the peoples of the Pamirs retained traits of Avestan culture, a notion borrowed from the works of Wilhelm Geiger and Karoly Jeno Ujfalvy de Mezo-Kovesd, and that the region was still populated by adherents of Zoroastrianism. During his 1898-99 expeditions to the Pamirs, Olufsen was accompanied by Danish botanist Ove Paulsen Ove Vilhelm Paulsen (22 March 1874 – 29 April 1947) was a Danish botanist. Biography Paulsen was born at Aarhus, Denmark. He studied at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugen Warming (1841-1924). Paulsen was a keeper at the Bot .... List of PublicationsO. Olufsen: "Den danske Pamir-Expedition"('' Geografisk Tidsskrift'', Bind 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 Births
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1988 Deaths
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicentennial on January 26; The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea; Soviet troops begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is completed the next year; The 1988 Armenian earthquake kills between 25,000-50,000 people; The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar, led by students, protests the Burma Socialist Programme Party; A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103, causing the plane to crash down on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland- the event kills 270 people., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Piper Alpha rect 200 0 400 200 Iran Air Flight 655 rect 400 0 600 200 Australian Bicentenary rect 0 200 300 400 Pan Am Flight 103 rect 300 200 600 400 1988 Summer Olympics rect 0 400 200 600 8888 Uprising rect 200 400 400 600 1988 Armenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
