Johan Adrian Jacobsen

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Johan Adrian Jacobsen

Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1853 Risøya, Tromsø - 1947) was a Norwegian ethnologist and explorer.

Biography

For seven years, beginning in 1867, he was member of a whaling crew on the Spitsbergen and Murman coasts. He traveled along the west coast of South America in 1876/7 and subsequently visited the Arctic regions, bringing back hundreds of ethnographical specimens. In 1881 he was engaged by the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde to gather ethnographical and other specimens on the west coast of North America, also Korea, Japan, Siberia, the South Sea Islands, etc. He spent seven years in this work, collecting in all over 18,000 specimens. Subsequently he made collections in Germany and Norway.^[1]

At the Columbian Exposition of 1893, he exhibited an ethnographical collection from 25 non-European peoples. These formed the nucleus around which grew the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago.^[1]

Works

Publications include:^[1]

Reise an der nordwestküste Amerikas (“Exploring the northwest coast of America,” 1884)
Eventyrlige farter (1894)
Reise in der inselwelt des Banda-Meeres (“Exploring the island world of the Banda Sea,” 1896)

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rines 1920.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Jacobsen, Johan Adrian". Encyclopedia Americana.

Persondata
Name	Jacobsen, Johan Adrian
Alternative names
Short description	Norwegian ethnologist and explorer.
Date of birth	1853
Place of birth	Risøya, Tromsø
Date of death	1947
Place of death

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