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 Koltsunyak
Ukrainian ethnographer, Galician.

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

Jermain Tilon
France
FranceFamous French ethnographer

Viacheslav Molodin
Russia
RussiaEthnographer

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

John Crawfurd
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish orientalist and ethnographer

Johann Gmelin
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist in Russian service, doctor, botanist, ethnographer, traveler, explorer of Siberia and the Urals

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

Bengt Danielsson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish ethnographer

Petr Bogatyrev
Soviet folklorist, ethnographer, translator

Ivan Shimanov
Bulgarian literary scholar and ethnographer, political figure.

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

Jorge Dias
Portugal
PortugalThe greatest Portuguese ethnologist and anthropologist

Michael Komarov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian ethnographer, lawyer, attorney

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

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

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

Adam Bogdanovich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian ethnographer, folklorist, memoirist, cultural historian

Antonio Dias
Portugal
PortugalThe greatest Portuguese ethnologist and anthropologist

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

Wilhelm Schmidt
Austria
AustriaAustrian ethnographer and linguist

Dmitriy Olderogge
Lithuania
LithuaniaRussian Africanist, ethnographer, historian and linguist

Aleksander Zyrianov
Russia
RussiaEthnographer, Russian regional historian and educator.

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

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

Elsdon Best
New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand ethnographer.

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

Todor Jivkov
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian ethnologist, folklorist.

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

Omer Asan
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish writer, ethnographer and linguist

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

Owen Lattimore
USA
USAAnglo-American orientalist.

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

Antoni Kalina
Poland
PolandPolish Slavist, ethnographer

Teofil Aleksander Lenartowicz
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer, sculptor and poet

Marat Mukanov
Kazakh historian and ethnographer

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

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

Raymond Firth
New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand ethnologist

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

Franciszek Duchinski
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer and historian

Reinhart Dozy
Netherlands
NetherlandsA famous Dutch orientalist and Islamic scholar.

Petr Kuzmenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer

Maria Krasnozhenova
Soviet folklorist, ethnographer, teacher, museum worker

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

Eivind Astrup
Norway
NorwayNorwegian polar explorer and ethnographer

Emil Korytko
Poland
PolandPolish patriot and ethnographer

Amable Jourdain
France
FranceFrench orientalist

Roman Zavilinsky
Poland
PolandPolish ethnographer, linguist and Slavist

Josef Stefan Kubin
Czech ethnographer, writer, translator and teacher