# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-richard-jacobi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:50:49.548Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-richard-jacobi"
name: "Carl Richard Jacobi"
slug: "carl-richard-jacobi"
description: "Carl Richard Jacobi was an American journalist and writer. He wrote short stories in the horror and fantasy genres for the pulp magazine market, appearing in such pulps of the bizarre and uncanny as Weird Tales, Ghost Stories, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Strange Stories. He also wrote stories of crime and adventure which appeared in such pulps as Thrilling Adventures, Complete Stories, Top-Notch, Short Stories, The Skipper, Doc Savage and Dime Adventures Magazine. Jacobi also produced some science fiction, mainly space opera, published in such magazines as Planet Stories. He was one of the last surviving pulp-fictioneers to have contributed to the legendary American horror magazine Weird Tales during its \"glory days\". His stories have been translated into French, Swedish, Danish, Russian and Dutch."
tagline: "American writer (1908-1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Jacobi_5408.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-07-10"
deathDate: "1997-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.94
  momentum:             1.107266435986159
  historical:           7.878222666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3230189/"
    handle:    "nm3230189"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Richard_Jacobi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "كارل ريتشارد جاكوبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل ريتشارد جاكوبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jacobi"
    title: "Carl Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jacobi_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Carl Jacobi (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Richard_Jacobi"
    title: "Carl Richard Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jacobi"
    title: "Carl Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%93"
    title: "カール・ジャコビ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Якоби, Карл (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2503902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump