Background
Kaj Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife, Ludovica (born Nielsen).
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Kaj Birket-Smith was the son of Danish librarian and literary historian Sophus Birket-Smith and wife, Ludovica (born Nielsen).
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1937.
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.
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He was a member of Knud Rasmussen"s 1921 Thule expedition.