Personal life Freuchen was born in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark, the son of Anne Petrine Frederikke and Lorentz Benzon Freuchen . His father was a businessman. Freuchen attended the University of Copenhagen where for a time he studied medicine. Freuchen was married three times. He was first married in 1911 to Navarana Mequpaluk , an Inuit woman who died in the Spanish Flu epidemic after bearing two children and a girl named Pipaluk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager . His second marriage was to Magdalene Vang Lauridsen , daughter of Johannes Peter Lauridsen , Danish businessman and director of Danmarks Nationalbank. The marriage started in 1924 and was dissolved in 1944. In 1945, he married Danish fashion illustrator, Dagmar Cohn . Freuchen's grandson, Peter Ittinuar, was the first Inuk in Canada to be elected as an MP, and represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1984. From 1926-1940, Freuchen owned the Danish island Eneh...

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