Hakon Grüner-Nielsen

Danish folklore and folk music researcher (1881-1953). An employee of Dansk Folkemindesamling (The Danish Folklore Archieves) 1906-51. One of the Danish pioneers in using the phonograph to collect audible documentation of the Danish folk music. With Evald Tang Kristensen he collected the first songs in Denmark in 1907, and in the 1920s he made collections in the Faroe Islands.