14 Facts About Christian Leden

Christian Leden was the first person to record film in the northern Arctic.

Christian Leden studied musicology in Berlin, entering the composer class at Royal Hochschule fur Musik in 1904.

Christian Leden was interested in the early music of Kalaallit.

Christian Leden traveled in Northern Canada in 1911, West Greenland in 1912, and through the Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories in 1913.

Christian Leden collected large quantities of crafts with special emphasis on Inuit art.

Christian Leden preserved a significant amount of film and photographs from his expeditions, and he learned an Inuit language.

Christian Leden cataloged his collection with each item's Inuktitut name and English name, as well as its function.

In 1919, American whaler George Comer was captain of Christian Leden's chartered voyage to study amongst the Inuit.

Christian Leden traveled to East Greenland in 1920 and 1926.

Christian Leden received support from the Geological Survey of Canada who helped him to continue his ethnographic work over several years.

Christian Leden's expeditions were sponsored by the King and Queen of Norway, the University of Christiania, and the Danish Carlsberg fond.

Christian Leden's work was compiled in the Danish Folklore Archives, and was later transferred to the Royal Danish Library.

Christian Leden had contacts with national socialist organizations both in Germany and Norway, including the SS Ahnenerbe think tank.

Christian Leden worked for the Volkischer Beobachter, and in 1940 joined the foreign branch of the Norwegian national socialist party Nasjonal Samling.