Ole Olufsen
Danish explorer (1865-1929)
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.
List of Publications
O. Olufsen: "Den danske Pamir-Expedition" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 14; 1897)
O. Olufsen: "Den anden danske Pamir-Expedition" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 15; 1899)
O. Olufsen: "Den anden danske Pamir-Expedition. Foreløbig Beretning om nogle Arbejder foretagne i Alitschurpamir" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 15; 1899)
O. Olufsen: "Den anden danske Pamirexpeditions Vinterstation 1898—99" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 15; 1899)
O. Olufsen: "Den anden danske Pamirexpedition" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 16; 1901)
O. Olufsen: "Den anden danske Pamirexpedition 1898—99. Rejse i Garan" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 16; 1901)
O. Olufsen: "Sommeren i Centralasien fra Kaspihavet til Ferghanas Østgrænse" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 16; 1901)
O. Olufsen: "Beboelser og Beboelsesforhold i Bokhara, Khiva og Turkestan" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 17; 1903)
O. Olufsen: "Muhamedanske Gravminder i Transkaspien, Khiva, Bokhara, Turkestan og Pamir, I" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 17; 1903)
O. Olufsen: "Muhamedanske Gravminder i Transkaspien, Khiva, Bokhara, Turkestan og Pamir, II" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 17; 1903)
Ole Olufsen: "Meteorological Observations from Pamir 1898—99" (København 1903),
O. Olufsen: "Centralasiens Moskeer, Medresseer og deres Gejstlighed" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 17; 1903)
O. Olufsen: "Pamir. Alaisteppen, den afløbsløse Se Kara Kul i det «de Ørken-Pamir og Ruten over Bjærgene mod Syd til Murghabfloden" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 17; 1903)
O. Olufsen: "Tibet og Spørgsmaalet Lhasa" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 17; 1903)
Ole Olufsen: "The second Danish Pamir-Expedition: old and new architecture in Khiva, Bokhara, and Turkestan" (Copenhagen 1904) [1]
Ole Olufsen: "Through the unknown Pamirs" (London 1904) [2]
Ole Olufsen: "Through the Pamir (Vakhan and Garan)" (London 1904)
Ole Olufsen: "Old and new Architecture in Khiva, Bokhara and Turkestan" (København 1904),
O. Olufsen: "Tibet" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
Ole Olufsen: "A Vocabulary of the Dialect of Bokhara" (København 1905)[3]
O. Olufsen (anmeldelse af: Western Tibet and the british Borderland; London 1906, i: Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
O. Olufsen: "Tsad-Søen" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
O. Olufsen: "Oasen Merv" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
O. Olufsen: "Seistan" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
O. Olufsen: "Gennem Transkaspiens Stepper og Ørkener" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
O. Olufsen: "Pamir. Rejse igennem Roshan, Darvas og Karategin" (Geografisk Tidsskrift, Bind 18; 1905)
O. Olufsen: "Pamir.
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