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]

References

1. ^ Gorshenina, Svetlana (2003) (in French). Explorateurs en Asie centrale. Geneva: Éd. Olizane. pp. 223–225. ISBN 2880862957. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Olufsen, O. (1904). Through the Unknown Pamirs: the Second Danish Pamir Expedition 1898-99. London: W. Heinemann. pp. 97–216. 

Further reading

• Olufsen, Ole. 1911. The Emir of Bokhara and His Country: Journeys and Studies in Bokhara. William Heinemann.

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Name	Olufsen, Ole
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Date of birth	1865
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Date of death	1929
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