Ethnographer
Discover a comprehensive list of notable individuals who have dedicated their careers to the study of human cultures and societies. Explore the lives and contributions of renowned ethnographers, including their groundbreaking research, influential theories, and lasting impact on the field.

Nikolay Gurvich
Belarus
BelarusDoctor, economist, historian, ethnographer, geographer, one of the first professional statisticians in Bashkiria.

Alexander Zataevich
Soviet musician-ethnographer, composer, People's Artist of the Kazakh ASSR

Raymond Firth
New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand ethnologist

Christina Krahelskaya
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer-folklorist, poetess, member of the Resistance

Viacheslav Molodin
Russia
RussiaEthnographer

Reinhart Dozy
Netherlands
NetherlandsA famous Dutch orientalist and Islamic scholar.

Jorge Dias
Portugal
PortugalThe greatest Portuguese ethnologist and anthropologist

Omer Asan
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish writer, ethnographer and linguist

Carl Koefoed
Denmark
DenmarkEthnographer, Russian statesman, specialist in agrarian issues.

Elsdon Best
New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand ethnographer.

Roman Zavilinsky
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer, linguist and Slavist

Michael Krasikov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet, literary scholar, ethnographer, folklorist.

Maria Krasnozhenova
Soviet folklorist, ethnographer, teacher, museum worker

Todor Jivkov
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian ethnologist, folklorist.

Maurice Alphonse Castaing
France
FranceFrench orientalist, founder of the Ethnographic Society.

Petr Bogatyrev
Soviet folklorist, ethnographer, translator

Owen Lattimore
USA
USAAnglo-American orientalist.

Mihail Andreev
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanScientist, researcher of the culture of the peoples of Central Asia, ethnographer and linguist

Michael Komarov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian ethnographer, lawyer, attorney

Marat Mukanov
Kazakh historian and ethnographer

Emil Korytko
Poland
PolandPolish patriot and ethnographer

Johann Georgi
Sweden
SwedenPhysician, ethnographer, naturalist, chemist, traveler

Ivan Sprogis
Latvia
LatviaLatvian ethnographer and archivist, completed a course at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy.

Antoni Kalina
Poland
PolandPolish Slavist, ethnographer

Ivan Shimanov
Bulgarian literary scholar and ethnographer, political figure.

Antonio Dias
Portugal
PortugalThe greatest Portuguese ethnologist and anthropologist

Franciszek Duchinski
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer and historian

Petr Kuzmenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer

Jermain Tilon
France
FranceFamous French ethnographer

John Crawfurd
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish orientalist and ethnographer

Josef Stefan Kubin
Czech ethnographer, writer, translator and teacher

Teofil Aleksander Lenartowicz
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer, sculptor and poet

Aleksander Zyrianov
Russia
RussiaEthnographer, Russian regional historian and educator.

Pamteleymon Kulish
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, poet, folklorist, ethnographer, translator, critic, editor, historian, publisher.

Eivind Astrup
Norway
NorwayNorwegian polar explorer and ethnographer

Shlomo Dov Goitein
Germany
GermanyGerman-Jewish ethnographer, American historian, Arabist and orientalist

Geza Roheim
Hungary
HungaryHungarian-American psychoanalyst, ethnographer and anthropologist of the Freudo-Marxist persuasion[

Vaclav Zaleski
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer.

Amable Jourdain
France
FranceFrench orientalist

Eduards Volters
Latvia
LatviaRussian and Lithuanian linguist, ethnographer, folklorist, archaeologist.

Inga Andronikova
Russia
RussiaEthnographer, researcher and collector of folklore and mythology of Russian Gypsies.

Boris Vladimirtsov
Russian orientalist, Mongolian scholar, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Isaac Kaya
Russian and Soviet teacher, historian, ethnographer, linguist

Mihail Shatilov
Siberian public and political figure, publicist, ethnographer, Socialist Revolutionary

Nikolay Koltsunyak
Ukrainian ethnographer, Galician.

Wilhelm Schmidt
Austria
AustriaAustrian ethnographer and linguist

Dmitriy Olderogge
Lithuania
LithuaniaRussian Africanist, ethnographer, historian and linguist

Moisey Krol
France
FranceMajor researcher of Siberian statistics, ethnographer and lawyer

Nikolay Animelle
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian ethnographer and archaeologist of the mid-19th century

Alarich Augustin
Germany
GermanyGerman ethnographer, SS Untersturmführer, leading member of the Ahnenerbe