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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054970

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Stef, 1879-1962
Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, 1879-1962
Stephenson, William, 1879-1962
Stephenson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
Stephenson, Villi, 1879-1962
Stefansson, Villi, 1879-1962

Additional Information

http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79054970

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn+79054970#skos:Concept

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
Vilhjalmur Stefansson Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: Author's Adventures in error, 1936.

found: Hunt, W.R. Stef, 1968:t.p. (Stef; Vilhjalmur Stefansson)

found: Hetjuleiðir og landafundir, 1962:t.p. (Vilhjálmur Stefánsson)

found: Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist biography, via WWW, Aug. 20, 2010(Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Nov. 3, 1879-Aug. 26, 1962); anthropologist, explorer, book collector, and writer, authority on polar regions; born in the Icelandic Canadian settlement of Arnes on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg; was christened William Stephenson, though his Icelandic-speaking family always called him Vilhjalmur or Villi. He formally adopted the Icelandic form of his name when he was 20 years old) - http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/vilhjalmurstefansson.html

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1979-06-28: new

2010-08-22: revised

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