Editing Knud Rasmussen (section)

==Early years==
[[File:Rasmussenhaus.JPG|thumb|upright|200px|Rasmussen family house in [[Ilulissat]]]]
Rasmussen was born in Jacobshavn (now called [[Ilulissat]]), Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an [[Inuit|Inuk]]–Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen (née Fleischer). He had two siblings.

Rasmussen spent his early years in Greenland among the [[Kalaallit]] where he learnt to speak [[Greenlandic language|Kalaallisut]], hunt, drive dog sleds and live in harsh [[Arctic]] conditions. "My playmates were native Greenlanders; from the earliest boyhood I played and worked with the hunters, so even the hardships of the most strenuous sledge-trips became pleasant routine for me."<ref name=aaa/>

He was later educated in [[Lynge, Allerod|Lynge]], [[North Zealand]], Denmark. Between 1898 and 1900 he pursued an unsuccessful career as an actor and opera singer.<ref name=cruwys/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilumus.gl/Knud%20Rasmussen_uk.htm |title=Life and history |publisher=ilumus.gl |access-date=6 January 2008 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102140551/http://www.ilumus.gl/Knud%20Rasmussen_uk.htm |archive-date=2 January 2008 }}</ref>