# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-rgen-j-rgensen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:09:09.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-rgen-j-rgensen"
name: "Jørgen Jørgensen"
slug: "j-rgen-j-rgensen"
description: "Jørgen Jørgensen was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the action of 2 March 1808, his ship was captured by the British. In 1809 he sailed to Iceland, declared the country independent from Denmark–Norway and pronounced himself its ruler. He intended to found a new republic, following the examples of the United States and the French First Republic. He was also a prolific writer of letters, papers, pamphlets and newspaper articles covering a wide variety of subjects, and for a period was an associate of the famous botanists Joseph Banks and William Jackson Hooker. He left over a hundred written autographs and drawings, most of which are collected in the British Library. Marcus Clarke referred to Jørgensen as \"a singularly accomplished fortune wooer—one of the most interesting human comets recorded in history\"."
tagline: "Self declared King of Iceland, defied the crown of Denmark. Reigned for a short period (1780-1841)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%B8rgen_J%C3%B8rgensen_(Eckersberg).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1780-03-29"
deathDate: "1841-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             0.6839622641509434
  historical:           14.73189866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jørgen Jürgensen"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_J%C3%B8rgensen"
    title: "Jørgen Jørgensen"
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    title: "Jørgen Jørgensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_J%C3%B8rgensen_(%C5%BCeglarz)"
    title: "Jørgen Jørgensen (żeglarz)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump