The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture

The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture was established in 1922 and is an independent research institution that provides support for research trips and book publications, among other things, through the Fredrik Stang Fund and the steamship expediter Nils Pedersen and his wife Mathilde Pedersen’s reward for outstanding work in comparative cultural research.


The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, founded in 1922, is an independent research institution sponsoring research in the areas of comparative linguistics, folklore, religion, ethnology, archaeology and ethnography.