Bengt Danielsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bengt Danielsson

Swedish ethnographer

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1921

Place of Birth: Krokek, Östergötland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 04-Jul-1997

Profession: writer, ethnologist, anthropologist, explorer, ethnographer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921 – 4 July 1997) was a Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947.
In 1991, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "exposing the tragic results of and advocating an end to French nuclear colonialism."