Bjarne Kroepelien
Bjarne Kroepelien (born 3 May 1890 in Bergen, died 28 April 1966 in Oslo) was a Norwegian wine merchant who is best known for his large collection of books on the Polynesian Islands. It was this book collection that sparked Thor Heyerdahl's interest in Polynesia and inspired his first theories on the contact between these islands and South America.
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