Ole Olufsen

Ole Olufsen

Ole Olufsen (1865–1929) was a Danish military officer and explorer. He made several notable expeditions in the 1890s to the Emirate of Bukhara, including the Pamir Mountains.[1] He also served as Secretary of the Royal Danish Geographical Society. Olufsen was a proponent of the idea that the people's 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.[2] During his 1898-99 expeditions to the Pamirs, Olufsen was accompanied by Danish botanist Ove Paulsen.[2]

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References

  1. Gorshenina, Svetlana (2003). Explorateurs en Asie centrale (in French). Geneva: Éd. Olizane. pp. 223–225. ISBN 2-88086-295-7.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Olufsen, O. (1904). Through the Unknown Pamirs: the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99. London: W. Heinemann. pp. 97–216.
  3. anmeldelse ved Emil Madsen