How to Pronounce William Thalbitzer
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Feb 05, 1873 Helsingør, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark Died on 18 Sep 1958 (aged 85)
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About William Thalbitzer
- William C.
- Thalbitzer (February 5, 1873 in Helsingør – September 18, 1958 in Usserød) was a Danish philologist and professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen.
- He studied Danish, English and Latin at the university, but after graduating in 1899 he decided to focus on "exotic" languages.
- In 1900 he spent a year in Ilulissat in western Greenland studying the Greenlandic language.
- From 1905 to 1907 he with his wife spent eighteen months among the natives in Tasiilaq, one of the most isolated places on the coast of eastern Greenland.
- In 1920 the University of Copenhagen established a permanent lecture position for Thalbitzer in "Greenlandic (Eskimo) language and culture".
- In 1952 he was made an honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen.
